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Parts of Parishes may be added to the Police District.
Parishes added to the District to be within 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 89.
2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.
II. And whereas by the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth Her Majesty is empowered, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Parishes, Townships, Precincts, and Places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, of which any Part shall be situated within Twelve Miles of Charing Cross in the City of Westminster, shall be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District: And whereas the Boundary of the District so formed is very irregular: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Place which is Part of the Central Criminal Court District, except the City of London and Liberties thereof, and such Places as are or may be included in any Act already passed or to be passed in this Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London, and also that any Part of any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place which is not more than Fifteen Miles distant from Charing Cross in a straight Line may be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District, although the whole of such Parish, Township, Place, or Precinct may not be added thereto; and all the Provisions of this Act, and of the said Act as amended by this Act, shall extend and apply to the Parishes, Townships, Precincts, or Places, or the Parts thereof, so respectively added; and in case no separate Rate shall be levied for the Relief of the Poor in any Place or Part so added, the Police Rate shall be assessed and levied therein in like Manner as in Extra-parochial Places within the Metropolitan Police District in which no Rate is levied for the Relief of the Poor.
III. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which after the passing of this Act any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, shall become Part of the Metropolitan Police District, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Three or more Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the Issue, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of an additional yearly Sum not greater in each Case than the Amount of Twopence in the Pound upon the additional Rental assessed to the Metropolitan Police by reason of such Addition, free of all Rates, Taxes, and Impositions, to be paid and applied in aid of the Charge of maintaining the Police of the Metropolis, upon the same Conditions, with respect to the District so added to the Metropolitan Police District, as the Issue of a Sum not exceeding Sixty thousand Pounds out of the said Consolidated Fund is authorized, with respect to the Parishes and Places already within the Metropolitan Police District by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty intituled 3 & 4 W. 4. An Act to authorize the Issue of a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund towards the Support of the Metropolitan Police; and every Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, within the Counties last aforesaid, which at any Time shall be Part of the Metropolitan Police District, shall be within all the Provisions of the last-recited Act as amended by this Act.
c. 89.
Repeal of 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 50, with Limitation.
2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.
499
IV. And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the placing of the Horse Patrol now acting under the Authority of the Chief Magistrate of the Public Office in Bow Street under the Authority of the Justices appointed for the Metropolitan Police District, is hereby repealed; but notwithstanding the Repeal of the said Act it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth to be Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, although they may not be qualified by Estate; and the said Justices shall be empowered to act as Justices in the last-mentioned Counties as fully as in any other Part of the Metropolitan Police District, and not further or otherwise, and shall be styled "The Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis."
V. And be it enacted, That the Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall have all the Powers and Privileges of a Constable in the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and upon the River Thames within or adjoining to the several Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire, Essex, and Kent, and within or adjoining to the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and in and on the several Creeks, Inlets, and Waters, Docks, Wharfs, Quays, and Landing Places, thereto adjacent, and shall act therein and thereupon as fully as in any Part of the Metropolitan Police District.
VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Three or more Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the Issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District of a yearly Sum not greater than Twenty thousand Pounds, free of all Rates, Taxes, and Impositions, for defraying the increased Charge of the Establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force by reason of that Force being required to perform the Duties heretofore performed by the Horse Patrol and by the Surveyors and Constables of the Thames Police, and also the Issue of such further Sum as shall be needed for the Payment of the Superannuation Allowances of such Surveyors and Constables as have been superannuated under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, or any subsequent Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, or who may hereafter become entitled to Superannuation Allowances under the Provisions of any such Act.
VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to administer to any Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force an Oath to execute the Office of Constable for the Royal Palaces of Her Majesty and Ten Miles thereof; and every Constable who shall be so sworn shall have the Powers and Privileges of a Constable within the said Royal Palaces and Ten Miles thereof.
VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Police, if they shall think fit, on the Application of ...
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c. 89.
2o & 3° VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.
II. And whereas by the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth Her Majesty is empowered, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Parishes, Townships, Precincts, and Places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, of which any Part shall be situated within Twelve Miles of Charing Cross in the City of Westminster, shall be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District: And whereas the Boundary of the District so formed is very irregular: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by the Advice of Her Privy Council, to order that any Place which is Part of the Central Criminal Court District, except the City of London and Liberties thereof, and such Places as are or may be included in any Act already passed or to be passed in this Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London, and also that any Part of any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place which is not more than Fifteen Miles distant from Charing Cross in a straight Line may be added to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District, although the whole of such Parish, Township, Place, or Precinct may not be added there- unto; and all the Provisions of this Act, and of the said Act as amended by this Act, shall extend and apply to the Parishes, Town- ships, Precincts, or Places, or the Parts thereof, so respectively added; and in case no separate Rate shall be levied for the Relief of the Poor in any Place or Part so added, the Police Rate shall be assessed and levied therein in like Manner as in Extra-parochial Places within the Metropolitan Police District in which no Rate is levied for the Relief of the Poor.
III. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which after the passing of this Act any Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, shall become Part of the Metropolitan Police District, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Three or more Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the Issue, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of an additional yearly Sum not greater in each Case than the Amount of Twopence in the Pound upon the additional Rental assessed to the Metropolitan Police by reason of such Addition, free of all Rates, Taxes, and Impositions, to be paid and applied in aid of the Charge of main- taining the Police of the Metropolis, upon the same Conditions, with respect to the District so added to the Metropolitan Police District, as the Issue of a Sum not exceeding Sixty thousand Pounds out of the said Consolidated Fund is authorized, with respect to the Parishes and Places already within the Metropolitan Police District by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty intituled 3 & 4 W. 4. An Act to authorize the Issue of a Sum of Money out of the Consoli- dated Fund towards the Support of the Metropolitan Police; and every Parish, Township, Precinct, or Place, or any Part thereof, within the Counties last aforesaid, which at any Time shall be Part of the Metro- politan Police District, shall be within all the Provisions of the last- recited Act as amended by this Act.
c. 89.
Repeal of 6 & 7 W. 4.
c. 50, with
IV. And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the placing
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placing of the Horse Patrol now acting under the Authority of the a certain Chief Magistrate of the Public Office in Bow Street under the Limitation. Authority of the Justices appointed for the Metropolitan Police District, is hereby repealed; but notwithstanding the Repeal of the said Act it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the Tenth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth to be Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, although they may not be qualified by Estate; and the said Justices shall be em- powered to act as Justices in the last-mentioned Counties as fully as in any other Part of the Metropolitan Police District, and not further or otherwise, and shall be styled "The Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis."
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V. And be it enacted, That the Constables belonging to the Metro- Metropo- politan Police Force shall have all the Powers and Privileges of a litan Police Constable in the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and Constables upon the River Thames within or adjoining to the several Counties the River of Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire, Essex, and Kent, and within or Thames, &c. adjoining to the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and in and on the several Creeks, Inlets, and Waters, Docks, Wharfs, Quays, and Landing Places, thereto adjacent, and shall act therein and there- upon as fully as in any Part of the Metropolitan Police District.
VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Sum re- Treasurer, or Three or more Commissioners of Her Majesty's quired to de- fray Charges Treasury by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to direct the of Thames Issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, to Police, the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District of a yearly Sum Horse Pa- not greater than Twenty thousand Pounds, free of all Rates, Taxes, trol, &c. and Impositions, for defraying the increased Charge of the Establish- ment of the Metropolitan Police Force by reason of that Force being required to perform the Duties heretofore performed by the Horse Patrol and by the Surveyors and Constables of the Thames Police, and also the Issue of such further Sum as shall be needed for the Payment of the Superannuation Allowances of such Surveyors and Constables as have been superannuated under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, or any subsequent Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, or who may hereafter become entitled to Superannuation Allowances under the Provisions of any such Act.
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VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Com- Constables missioners to administer to any Constable belonging to the Metro- may be politan Police Force an Oath to execute the Office of Constable for the within the Royal Palaces of Her Majesty and Ten Miles thereof; and Palaces. every Constable who shall be so sworn shall have the Powers and Privileges of a Constable within the said Royal Palaces and Ten Miles thereof.
VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Additional Commissioners of Police, if they shall think fit, on the Application of
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