Section 13

Section 13. That the said marshal of police and the presidents of the councils of the city of Philadelphia, and the presidents of the respective boards of commissioners of the incorporated districts comprising the said police district for the time being, shall form a board of police of which the said marshal shall be the president, and of whom a majority shall form a quorum for the transaction of business; and the said board shall from time to time make such rules and regulations for the proper government of the police establishment of the said "police district" as they may deem expedient; and the said board may from time to time determine upon the number of policemen that shall be nominated and appointed in and for the city of Philadelphia and the several districts embraced in the said "police district" respectively, agreeably to the provisions of the sixteenth section of the act entitled "An Act to regulate the municipal elections in the city of Philadelphia and to establish an uniform system of police for the city of Philadelphia and the districts of Southwark, Moyamensing, Spring Garden, Penn township, the incorporated Northern Liberties and Kensington," approved the third day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and that the seventeenth section of said act be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That the sheriff of the county of Philadelphia shall be required to call a meeting of the said board of police within twenty days after the said marshal shall have been duly qualified, by an advertisement published in at least three of the daily papers published in the city of Philadelphia: And provided further, That nothing contained in this or any other act shall be so construed as to prevent the said marshal and policemen from suppressing riots and reserving that said marshal and policemen from suppressing riots and preserving the peace in other parts of the county of Philadelphia than those comprised in said "police district:" And provided further, That nothing contained in this or in any other enactment of the Legislature shall be construed to prevent the city of Philadelphia, or either of the incorporated districts of the county from appointing and having under its exclusive control such additional policemen as may be deemed necessary for ordinary police purposes.