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Police Revenue Bill Observations

III Regulation
Arms
Powers to bear
arms

Precedents Note

1 W. &M .C.2 [Bill of Rights] Art 7 "Where the subjects
which are Protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable
to their conditions and as allowed by law

(a) 1 W. & M. c. 15. [Recusants] § 5 & 6. Penalty on Recusants not discovering of the arms, treble value of three months Imprisonment
13 or search for arms — Penalty upon Concealers of Arms of the C.2.c.3. § 14. Militia (unrepealed) Lieutenant "And for the
"better securing the peace of the Kingdom, be in further enacted
of or any two or three of their Deputies
"and declared and the said respective Lieutenants, or any one or more of + copy this section
"their Deputies are hereby enabled and authorized from time to time by warrant
"under their Hands and Seals to employ such person or persons as they shall
"think fit of which a commissioned officer and the constable or his Deputy or
"the Tithingman or in the absence of the constable and his Deputy and Tithingman
"some other Person bearing office within the Parish where the Search shall be
"shall be two) to search for and seize all arms in the Custody or Possession of
"any Person or Persons whom the said Lieutenants or any two or more of their Deputies
"shall judge dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom, and to secure such Arms for the service
"aforesaid, and thereof from time to time to give accounts to the said respective
"Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by the Directions to their
"Deputies or any two or more of them. Provided that no such search be made in
"any House of Houses between sun setting and sun rising other than in Cities and
"their Suburbs and Towns Corporate Market Towns and Houses within the Bills of
"mortality where it shall and may be lawful to search in the night time
"by warrant as aforesaid if the warrant shall so direct and in case of
"resistance to enter by force (3) and that no Dwelling House of any Peer
of this Realm be searched by virtue of this Act but by immediate
"Warrant from his Majesty under his sign manual or in the presence
"of the Lieutenant or one of his Deputy Lieutenants for the same
"County or Riding (4) and that in all places and Houses whatsoever where
"search is to be made as aforesaid it shall and may be lawful in
"case of resistance to enter by force (5) and that the arms so seized may
"be returned to the owners again if the said Lieutenants or in their
"absence as aforesaid their Deputies or any two or more of them
"shall think fit" —

Identifier: | JB/150/741/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	741	Info in main headings field	inserenda police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8* / f18*
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50962
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