good and sufficient Gates across each End of such Turnpike or other Road as aforesaid at each of the said Crossings, and shall employ good and proper Persons to open and shut such Gates, so that the Persons, Carts, or Carriages passing along such Turnpike or Highway shall not be exposed to any Danger or Damage by the passing of any Carriages or Engines along the said Railroad; and any Complaint for any Neglect in respect of the said Gates shall be made within One Calendar Month after the said Neglect to any Justice of the Peace, or if in Scotland to the Sheriff of the County, who may summon the Party so complained against to appear before them or him at the next Petty Session or Court to be holden for the District or Division within which such Gates are situate, who shall hear and decide upon the said Complaint; and the Proprietor or Director so offending shall for each and Penalty 51. for every Day of such Neglect forfeit any Sum not exceeding Five each Day's Pounds, together with such Costs as to the Justices or Sheriff Neglect. Depute aforesaid before whom the Conviction shall take place shall seem fit. shall be reco vered and applied. II. And be it further enacted, That the Penalties by this Act How Penalties imposed, and the Costs to be allowed and ordered by the Authority of this Act, shall in England be recovered and applied in the same Manner as any Penalties and Costs under the said Act, and in Scotland shall be recovered and applied to the Maintenance of the Statute Labour Roads within the District where the Offence is committed. III. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence Commenceand take effect from and after the Thirtieth Day of September One ment of Act. thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. WH CA P. XLVI. An Act to authorize the Trustees of Turnpike Roads to and Trustees empowered to reduce additional Tolls for Overweight. and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road may and are hereby empowered, at any Meeting or Meetings to be held for the Purpose (of which Meeting or Meetings and the Purposes thereof Fourteen Days Notice shall be given), to lower the several additional Tolls by the said recited Acts or either of them directed to be taken for Overweight, in such Manner as to them shall seem fit and convenient, and from Time to Time to take such reduced Tolls for Overweight as shall be fixed and agreed on at such Meeting or Meetings. 10 G. 4. c. 44. So much of 29 G. 2. c. 25. as requires the Appointment of Constables at Courts Leet repealed. Parts of Parishes may be added to the Police District. CA P. XLVII. An Act for further improving the Police in and near the 6 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 Extraparochial, 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 2&3 Vict.c.xciv. 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 to and form Part of the Metropolitan Police District, although the whole of such Parish, Township, Place, or Precinct may not be added thereunto; 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. Parishes added to the District 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 Two-pence 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 An Act to 3&4 W. 4. c.89. 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. 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." Repeal of 6&7 W.4.c. 50. with a certain Limitation Police Constables to act V. And be it enacted, That the Constables belonging to the Metropolitan 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 on the River Thames, &c. Sum required to defray Charges of Thames Police, Horse Patrol, &c. Constables may be sworn to act for the Palaces. Additional Constables may be appointed at the Cost of Individuals. A Statement of the Number of Persons belong ing to the Police Force to be 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 within 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 any Person or Persons showing the Necessity thereof, to appoint and swear any additional Number of Constables to keep the Peace at any Place within the Metropolitan Police District, at the Charge of the Person or Persons by whom the Application shall be made, but subject to the Orders of the said Commissioners, and for such Time as they shall think fit; and every such Constable shall have all the Powers, Privileges, and Duties of other Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons on whose Application such Appointment shall have been made, upon giving One Calendar Month's Notice in Writing to the Commissioners, to require that the Constables so appointed shall be discontinued, and thereupon the Commissioners shall discontinue such additional Constables; and all Monies received on account of any such additional Constables shall be paid to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, and shall be accounted for by him in like Manner as other Monies receivable by him. IX. And be it enacted, That, in addition to the Returns relating to the Metropolitan Police which by former Acts are required to be laid annually before Parliament, there shall also be laid annually before both Houses of Parliament, together with such Returns, a Statement ment. Statement of the total Number of Persons belonging to the Metro- annually laid politan Police Force on the First Day of January of the Year in before Parliawhich each Return is laid before Parliament, distinguishing the Number of Persons in each Class or Rank of such Force, with the Salaries and Allowances enjoyed by each Class. Tolls. X. And be it enacted, That no Toll shall be demanded or taken Exemption on any Turnpike Road or Bridge for any Horse or Police Van from Turnpike passing along such Road or Bridge in the Service of the Metropolitan Police, provided that the Rider of such Horse or Driver of such Van shall have his Dress and Accoutrements according to the Regulations of the Police Force at the Time of claiming the Exemption; and every Person who shall fraudulently claim or take the Benefit of the Exemption from Toll herein contained, not being lawfully entitled thereunto, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds; and in all such Cases the Proof of Exemption shall be upon the Person claiming the same. XI. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners of Police shall take care that a sufficient Number of Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall be in attendance upon every Magistrate sitting at any Police Court within the Limits of the Metropolitan Police District, and at every other Criminal Court holden within the said District, for the Purpose of executing such Summonses and Warrants as may be directed to them. XII. And be it enacted, That after the passing of this Act all Summonses and Warrants to be issued in any Criminal Proceed. ing within the Metropolitan Police District, or by any Magistrate within the said District, shall be served and executed by a Constable of the Metropolitan Police Force, and by none other. XIII. And be it enacted, That when any Warrant shall be directed or delivered to any of the said Constables, unless it be necessary for the due Execution thereof that such Warrant be executed without Delay, the Constable shall deliver the same to the Superintendent or other his superior Officer belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force, who shall appoint, by Indorsement thereon, One or more Constables to execute the same; and every Constable whose Name shall be so indorsed shall have the same Powers, Privileges, and Protections for and in the Execution of such Warrant as if the same had been originally directed to him or them by Name. XIV. And be it enacted, That every Constable who shall be guilty of any Neglect or Violation of Duty in his Office of Constable shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Ten Pounds, the Amount of which Penalty may be deducted from any Salary then due to such Offender, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate, may be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, for any Time not more than One Calendar Month. XV. And be it enacted, That no Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall be at liberty to resign his Office, or to withdraw himself from the Duties thereof, unless expressly allowed so to do, in Writing, by the Superintendent under whom he may be placed, or unless he shall give to such Superintendent One Calendar Month's Notice of his Intention; and every Constable who shall so resign or withdraw himself without such Leave or Police Con stables to attend the Magistrates. Summonses and Warrants in ceedings to be executed by Criminal Pro them. How Warrants issued to Police Constables may be executed. Penalty on Constables not to resign withNotice out Leave or |