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162 ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1845 .


Good Order and Cleanliness.


Behaving 13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every person who
riotously or
provoking shall behave in a riotous, noisy, or disorderly manner, or shall use any
breach of the
peace. profane or indecent language, or any threatening, abusive, or insulting
words or behaviour, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or

whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned , shall be liable to a
penalty of not more than five pounds , or, in the discretion of the convict
ing Magistrate, to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven days.
Improperly 14. And be it further enacted and ordained , that every person , not
possessing the
arms or being a constable of the Police Force, who shall have in his possession
clothing, or
assuming the any article being part of the clothing, accoutrements , or appointments
character of
a policeman, supplied to any such constable, and who shall not be able satisfactorily
&c.
to account for his possession thereof, or who shall put on the dress , or
take the name, designation , or character of any person appointed as such
constable, for the purpose of thereby obtaining admission into any house
or other place, or of doing or procuring to be done any act which such
person would be entitled to do or procure to be done of his own authority,
or for any other unlawful purpose, shall , in addition to any other punish
ment to which he may be liable for such offence , be liable to a penalty of
not more than ten pounds.

Constables 15. And be it further enacted and ordained , that it shall be lawful
may
apprehend for any constable belonging to the Police Force, and for all persons whom
any offender
whose name he shall call to his assistance, to take into custody without warrant any
and residence
are not person who within view of any such constable shall offend in any manner
known.
against this Ordinance, and whose name and residence shall be unknown
to such constable, and cannot be ascertained by such constable.

Constables 16. And be it further enacted and ordained , that it shall be lawful
may
apprehend for any constable belonging to the Police Force to take into custody
without
warrant in without a warrant all loose, idle, and disorderly persons whom he shall
certain cases.
[See Ordi find disturbing the public peace, or whom he shall have good cause to
nance No. 4 of
1865, s. 61. ] suspect of having committed or being about to commit any felony, mis
demeanour, or breach of the peace , and all persons whom he shall find
between sunset and the hour of six in the morning lying or loitering in

any highway, yard , or other place, and who cannot give a satisfactory
account of themselves.

Power to 17. And be it further enacted and ordained , that any person found
police
constables committing any offence punishable either upon indictment, or as a mis
and persons.
demeanour, upon summary conviction by virtue of this Ordinance, may