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take all necessary steps for forming and adapting them to the requirements of the Police under their charge, and for so managing them that Constables from other stations who may be passing through on duty may obtain their meals at moderate cost. In all matters relating to the expense and management of the mess the minority must give way to the majority, the officer in charge being appealed to if desired. No mess debts to tradesmen shall be incurred by members.

72. Sergeants must not be elected mess caterers; the Constables should elect one of their number to this position.

73. Regularity of hours, cleanliness, proper costume, and correct behaviour at meals must be strictly observed.

74. The officer in charge of a station shall take charge of the private effects of any Constable who dies thereat, and shall make a careful inventory of the same in the presence of a subscribing witness, and shall transmit a true copy of such inventory, together with a list of debts (if any), to the officer in charge of the district, who shall transmit the same, with all necessary information regarding pay and allowances due, to the Public Trustee or his agent, with a view to the proper disposal of such property in accordance with the law.

75. The death of any member of the Force shall be promptly notified to the Commissioner by the officer in charge of the district.

76. No one shall wilfully or negligently cause any noise near the sleeping-quarters of the men, whereby their rest may be disturbed.

77. Where the bathroom is near the men’s sleeping-quarters it must not be used between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.

78. No one shall bring intoxicating liquor into any barracks, or keep any intoxicating liquor therein.

79. No one shall gamble in barracks, whether by playing at billiards, cards, dice, or any other game.

80. No one shall use indecent, obscene, profane, abusive, or threatening language in any barracks or Police gymnasium.

81. Nails must not be driven into the woodwork or walls of the men’s sleeping-quarters. Suitable hooks for hanging plain clothes thereon will be provided by the Department.

82. If men wish to hang pictures in their sleeping-quarters, suitable hooks to hang them on will also be provided. No pictures of an objectionable nature will be allowed to be hung in barracks.

83. All men residing in barracks must polish the linoleum in their sleeping-quarters weekly.

84. Men having windows in their sleeping-quarters must clean them weekly.

85. Each man residing in barracks shall keep his card in the card-case placed on the door of his sleeping-quarters for that purpose.

86. No one shall smoke in any part of a barracks, except in such room or rooms as may be set apart for that purpose by an order in writing issued by the officer in charge.

87. Maps or other papers shall not be gummed or pasted on the woodwork or walls of any of the offices, rooms, or passages of any barracks.

88. Persons taking exercise of any kind in a Police gymnasium must use rubber-soled shoes. No one will be allowed to exercise therein in ordinary boots or shoes.

89. Civilians will not be allowed to frequent or take exercise in any Police gymnasium without the permission of the officer in charge.

90. Men shall not keep any part of their uniform in their sleeping-quarters in barracks where a uniform-room is provided.

91. No member of the Force shall use articles of clothing or appointments belonging to any other member without the owner’s permission, or remove them from the place where they are usually kept, or wilfully or negligently damage any such articles.

92. A regulation box will be supplied by the Department to each man residing in barracks, to be kept in his sleeping-quarters, for the safe keeping of his underclothing and other personal effects. No private box, bag, or portmanteau shall be allowed in such quarters; they must be kept in a room specially set apart for that purpose. Shaving-requisites, soiled towels, underclothing, &c., shall not be left lying about exposed to view, and such articles must not be stowed away under mattresses.

93. No boots shall be kept by any man in his sleeping-quarters except the pair he has been wearing during the day. All other boots must be kept in the boot-room, in a clean condition.

94. No one shall wash articles of clothing in any bath or lavatory-basin in barracks.

95. Constables residing in barracks and performing ordinary duty shall be told off in their turn for duty as barrack orderly.

96. On the orderly taking up his duties in the morning he shall place his card in the card-case provided for that purpose. Such card-case shall be fixed in some prominent place in the passage where it can easily be seen.

97. He shall then carefully sweep out and dust the library, uniform-room, passages, and billiard-room, brush and dust the billiard-table, shake mats and return them to their proper places, shine brasses, and have this portion of his duties completed by 9.30 a.m.

98. He must wash out or hose down the floors of closets and urinal, and flush the closet-pans every forenoon, using a disinfectant in these conveniences if required.

99. Cubicles and other sleeping-quarters must be swept out and dusted, and the beds therein made by their respective occupants not later than 2.30 p.m., after which time the orderly shall brush and dust all passages, stairs, bannisters, &c., and have the whole barrack premises ready for inspection at 3 p.m.

100. The orderly shall turn on lights when they become necessary, and turn them off at 11 p.m., unless orders to the contrary have been issued by the officer in charge.

101. He must not play billiards before 3 o’clock in the afternoon; but he will be held strictly responsible for the collection of fees from those who have played billiards during his hours of duty, and also for any damage that may have been done to the table or its appointments, unless he can show by whom such damage was done.

102. He must not quit the barracks during his hours of duty without the permission of the Senior or other Sergeant in charge.

103. Two Constables must be told off daily for orderly duty where the number of men on the station is sufficient to allow of this being done. One shall go on at 7 a.m. and remain on till 3 p.m., when the other shall take up the duty from that hour till 11 p.m. They shall relieve each other for meals.

104. On the day following his turn of duty as orderly each Constable shall pay to the treasurer of the billiard-table fund all fees for games of billiards played during his hours of duty, and get the treasurer