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Thames Police Bill Thames Police Bill

and being so met shall swear in, and,
them and there to nominate and appoint as institute
swear in and authorise also at their discretion discharge any such number
of discrete and able bodied persons
not exceeding one hundred acting at any one time [+] (so as the number thereof shall never exceed one hundred in the whole) as to the said Magistrates shall seem
meet to act and serve as Constables [+] [+] and any two one or more of them as High Constable or High Constables for the
preservation of peace and good order in upon and
in the vicinity of the said River and especially
for [+]2[+]2 the detection of felonies and misdemeanours, the apprehension of offenders and the preservation of the several Vessels
with their materials furniture and stores and cargoes which stationed for the purpose
of loading and or unloading or otherwise in
and upon the said River which said persons
being with their own free consent respectively so sworn in as
nominated and constituted aforesaid shall be stiled and
intituled Thames Police Constables and shall
each of them [by virtue of such nomination and
appointment have and possess as well in and
upon and within the banks + + the part of the river running between any two of the four Counties ought to be example any more than the land - Does not the authority of a Constable extend over the Bridge[of [+] of
[+] such part of the River above London Bridge as runs between the City of London and County of Middlesex on the one side and the County of Surrey on the other and below London Bridge such part of the said River as runs between the said Bridge and the Lower Hope point the said River
as runs between London Bridge and the Lower
Hope Point] as within every Parish Township
Constablewick or Place in the said City of London
as also in the each one of the said four adjacent
Counties the City of and Liberty of Westminster
and the Liberty of the Tower of London
respectively the same power and authority as either.
at Common Law # # Would not the Common Law power be sufficient? A number of irrelevant powers may have been given by Statute [or under and by virtue of any
Statute or Statutes now in force or which hereinafter shall
be in force appertains or shall appertain to and is
or shall be possessed by any Constable within his Constablewick
and every such Thames Police Constable
shall previously to his entrance into such his office take
an Oath according to the form exhibited in Schedule A
annexed to this Act which said Oath any one of such three or
two Magistrates so sitting as aforesaid is hereby empowered to administer.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	082	Info in main headings field	thames police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50303
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