The Parish Constables' Act: (5 & 6 Vict. Cap. 109), with Notes, Forms, and Index |
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act as overseers actually practising adjoining parish Appendix appointment of constables appointment of parochial approved attend chief constable chosen and sworn Christian Name clerk consta constables appointed constables to act county rates court leet duties extra-parochial place find a substitute Form hands and seals hereby hundred and forty inhabitants justice usually acting justices aforesaid present leet or tourn liable to serve list of persons lock-up houses Lord one thousand lord should hold Majesty's justices Metropolitan Police District MIDDLE TEMPLE oath office of constable paid constables parish constables parochial constables penalties persons to act petty session aforesaid petty session assembled Place of Abode POOR LAW COMMISSIONS poor rate precept purpose quali qualified and liable qualified to serve salary SECT serve as constables serve the office special petty session special session statute summoned sworn as constable sworn to act thousand eight hundred tices vestry Vict WILLIAM GOLDEN
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Page 32 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 35 - Conviction, shall not be forthwith paid, the same shall be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender, by Warrant under ~,'.'". .. the Hand and Seal of such...
Page 21 - ... and also to strike thereout the names of men disabled by lunacy or imbecility of mind, or by deafness, blindness, or other permanent infirmity of body, from serving on juries...
Page 16 - ... attornies, solicitors, and proctors duly admitted in any Court of law or equity, or of ecclesiastical or admiralty jurisdiction, in which attornies...
Page 17 - WE, THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 21 - ... other proof, or upon their own knowledge, that he is not qualified and liable to serve on juries, to strike his name out of such list...
Page 17 - Kingston-upon-Hull, or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and all masters of vessels in the buoy and light service employed by either of those corporations, and all pilots licensed under...
Page 11 - Year, a List in Writing of a competent Number of Men within their respective Parishes qualified and liable to serve as Constables, and also to perform all other Requisitions in the said Precepts contained ; and with the said Precept shall be given Notice to the said Overseers of the Time and Place where such Special Session of the Peace as aforesaid will be holden.
Page 35 - Superintending Constable shall be entitled to hold his Office until dismissed by the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, and shall receive such Salary out of the County Rates as the Justices assembled as aforesaid shall order.
Page 23 - Year now next following, or until another Constable shall be sworn in my stead, according to the best of my skill and knowledge. So help me GOD.