Art. 135. It detains everywhere foreign persons who have either no passport or no proper passport, and presents them to nearest police officer.
Art. 136. It arrests those who, out of carelessness or negligence, have harmed someone on the street or in public places by riding, driving, or in some other way, or who engage in malicious mischief in places dedicated to public enjoyment and comfort.
Art. 137. It ensures good order on the highways, maintains free communication at all times, admonishes coachmen and carters to remain with their horses and to adhere to the other road regulations, to which end they are authorized to hand over those who resist them to the nearest authority, which immediately carries out the punishment of the recalcitrant person.
Art. 138. As a necessary means for carrying out all of the regular official duties listed above, it behooves the gendarmerie to constantly patrol the main roads as well as the secondary and adjoining roads, namely in the districts especially assigned to each brigade, such that in turn at least one third of the troops is occupied with this duty. [ . . . ]
Art. 143. The performance of all of these duties, which are the obligation of the gendarmerie without any previous requisition by a public authority, is regularly entered into the duty book by every brigade, from which the extracts are conveyed monthly to the Landgericht [provincial court of justice] in which the brigades are stationed, from there to the relevant Commissariat General, and from there to the Ministry, in a uniform compilation with the necessary comments, just as the same reports are simultaneously sent every month by the brigades to the commander of the company, by him to the commander of the legion, and, finally, by him to the general, who likewise presents them to the Ministry of the Interior with his comments. [ . . . ]
XVII. Relations to the military and the national guard
Art. 174. The gendarmerie, which holds the first place within the military budget, can, even though it is subject only to the highest policy authority of the Reich in its regular duty, be removed from that setting and assigned to the other parts of the armed force, both in war and in peacetime.
Art. 175. In the former case, the Ministry of the Interior, after prior consultation with the Ministry of War, decides which units of the corps can be given up to perform policing duty in an army corps that is on a war footing, or to perform other duties against the external enemy. [ . . . ]
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