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BARRACK REGULATIONS. 67
has been obtained, be either an elderlywoman or a married
one, so as to prevent any appearance of impropriety, or
grounds for scandal. Should a difference of opinion arise
as to the conduct or capabilities of the servant, the matter
is to be reported without delayito the District Inspector,
‘who will decide the question,
(67.) Strangers not to sleep in Barracks.-The Head or
other Constable in charge will be held strictly responsible
that relatives of members of the Force and other persons
not connected with the establishment, shall not be allowed
to sleep in the barracks, and that no person except on busi-
ness relating to the public service,,shall be allowed to fre-
quent the barracks. v This applies particularly to dismissed
policemen. ‘ ’
. (68.) Gambling Prrolzibited.-Every species of gambling
is strictly prohibited in barracks and elsewhere, but this is
not to prevent men amusing themselves in harmless games.
(69.) Divine Service, illeetirzgs, Religious Tracts, c(’:c.-
Considering that Constabulary barracks, which are of very
limited dimensions, usually contain men of different creeds,
they are not either directly or indirectly to be converted
Into places for the celebration of Divine Service, or of
possible religious disputation.’ Whenever religious tracts
01‘ pamphlets addressed to the police as a body, and not to
an individual, are received at any station, they are at once
to beihanded to the Head Constable, or Sergeant in charge,
who should consult the District Inspector as to the disposal
Of them. Nor are the barracks to be used as ‘places for the
holding of inquests, petty sessions, the meeting of magis-
trates, reliefvcommittees, or for the rendezvous or payment
Of pensioners, except those of the Constabulary. But this
Order is not to prevent a magistrate or magistrates using
the’ barracks in cases of sudden emergency (other than
those above specified) where an opposite course would ob-
vlously impede and inconvenience the due administration
Of the law; in all cases, however, where time permits,
authority must be applied for. t
(70.) Gm-(lens.-If there be a garden attached to the
arrack it is to be considered as belonging to the whole
Party, and is to be appropriated in the following way:.
1'0 a, District Inspector (married or single) residing in bar.
ried or single) three shares, to each married man below the
racks will be given five shares, to a Head Constable (mar- '