The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy

Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012-08-17T21:14:32+00:00

British Liquor Laws

Metropolitan Police Act of 1839

Selections from original legislation pertaining

to liquor and drunkenness

Metropolitan Police Act 1839

1839 Chapter 47

An Act for further improving the Police in and near the Metropolis. [17th August 1839]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis, for the Purpose of establishing a new and more efficient System of Police in the Room of the inadequate local Establishments of nightly Watch and nightly Police, within the Limits in the said Act specified, therein called “The Metropolitan police District:” And whereas the System of Police established under the said Act hath been found very efficient, and may be yet further improved : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster, and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to prevent Nuisances and other Offences within the said City and Liberty, or of any other Act, as requires or authorizes the Appointment of any Constables or High Constable at any Court Leet, shall be repealed from the passing of this Act.

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