The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. Posiizimr in the chair.) The amendments of the committee will be reported in their order. The 1st amendment was read. It was to strike out the 2nd section of the bill in the following words: Sec. 2 Abife: That on and alter the passageof this act the annual compensation of file major commandingthe force shall be$1.600: the captain and inspector the secretary and the property clerk. be$1.200;the clerks. $1.900; the commis sinnersand the surgeons. 400; the lieutenants.Saw; the sergeants.8660: the patrolmen or privates.8li(l0: and the treasurerand detectives 6800each.respect ively. the lieutenants. sergeants. utrolpien and by detectives. Authorized tobe employ bythis actnnd the acts oi“August 6. l8 ol and July 16, 1862a. s hereby amondod shull be paid through the treasurer of the board of police.the additional compensation which the corporute authorities of the citiesof washington and Georgetown and the county of Washington are authorized andrequired by the act approved March 2. 1865 t o pay in the proportion to the number of lieutenants. sergeants, privates and detectives allotted by the boardof police to actual dut within the respective municipal jurisdictions of the itrict and all the otherofficersand einploycsof the Metro politan police establishment authorized by this and the aforesaid acts shall be paid an additional compensation of 50 iei' cent. 12/15th by the authorities of Was iington. 2/15th by the authorities of Georgetown, and one lifteont i by the authorities of the county of Washington; and the laidauthoritics shall have lower, and theyarehereby required. in addition to 0t ier taxes authorizedto be levied.to annually levy and collectaspeoial tax sufficient to pay the additional compensation.said tax neorttyto exceedone4th of onepercciit.on all prop within eachof the said corporate jurisdictions of the District; and upon the monthly requisition of the treasurer countersigned by the secretaryof the board of alien for their respective proortionate sharesoft 0 grosssuiu payable eachment asherein prescribed.it shall bet e duty of the proper officers of said cities and county topaythesameto and take duplicate receiptsfrom. said treasurer therefor. the original of which shall botiled in the officeof the 3rd Auditor of the Treasury of the U.S. within ten daysthercafter by the oihcerreceivingthe name. And if the said corporateauthorities of said cities or county or either of them, fall or refuse to meetthe requirementsof this act.it shall bethe duty of the SecyInterior to causeto belevi and collected the tint hereinbefore provided. an the expenseof collection thereof aha l be bornein just proportions by the respectiveJurisdictions in which such collection may bemade.