Special Session, City Council, , Decr. 29th. 1843 4 P.M.

Names of Members called. Prayer by .

Minutes of last Council read and approved.

and forty policement were sworn into office, to support the Constitution of the and the State of , and obey the ordinances of this , and <​the instructions of​> the Mayor, according to the best of their ability, by , clerk of the Mayor’s Court. Names of Police called by Capt. . <​as follows​>

The Mayor said that it was expected that a part would be on duty while others rest— that it might be expected that thieves had crept into the <​for the purpose of concealing their wickedness under the garb of sanctity.​>— that It would be <​is​> an abominable thing to set a thief to catch a thief, and <​I​> would look upon men in these situation <​who do this as​> guilty of a mean or cowardly act with the utmost contempt.— <​some city councils have taken thieves out of their prisons & employed them as policemen, under the old <​& foolish​> adage “set a rogue to catch a rogue” which is decidedly wrong & <​it is​> wicked <​corrupt​> policy.​> Capt <​is​> to be called High Policeman <​you will act under the direction of , we will call him High Policeman, but he is in reality <​he is the​> Captain, <​of the Police,​> but as men are apt to be frightened at a Military Title, we will use a Civil Title; as these <​Police​>men are all civil officers of the . is the man to send after a thief, he will not come back after following him a mile to ask if he may shoot him, if he resists—​> <​Some​> Men have strange ears <​& changeable hearts,​> <​they become​> transformed, <​from their original purity & integrity, & become altogether different to what they were​>— altogether different from what they were—