Sec. 18. Conservators of the peace.
Each councilman, and the civil and police justice [judge of
the municipal court],[7]
of said city, for the time being, are
declared to be, and are hereby, constituted conservators of
the peace within said city, and within one mile from the corporate
limits thereof, and shall have all the powers and authority,
in civil, as well as in criminal cases, as justices of
the peace. And the chief of police and the policemen of the
city shall also be conservators of the peace within the limits
aforesaid, and all proper arrests may be made and warrants
of arrest executed by such chief of police and policemen.
