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Office of Corporation Councel
O Jacobs Corporation Counsel
Solon T Williams Assistant Corporation Counsel
Seattle, Washington
duty, without leave for the term of five days, shall, at
the expiration of said five days, cease to be a member of
the Police force, rule forty-six, however provides, that in
the case of sickness of a memver of the Police force, when pro-
perly set apart by the city Physician, that the results stated
in rule forty-eight shall not take place. Under these rules
of which Mr. Kent as a member of the Police force is presumed
to have full notice and knowledge, it was his duty, if dis-
abled by sickness to perform his duty as a policeman, to
notify the chief of Police by a certificate of the city
Physician that he was sick and unable to perform his duty,
and such notice must be filed at Police Headquarters, with in
five days after such disability or sickness commenced.
This is a reasonable and necessary requirement. It
would not do for the chief of Police to act on the verbal
representation sent to him, if any, of the disability by sick-
ness of any of his force. the law, as well as the rules of
the Police department require a certain kind of testimony
in such cases, and that with the certificate of the City
Physician of the disability created by sickness.
It was the imperative duty of Mr. Kent, so far as the