Dublin Police Magistrates Act, 1808
DUBLIN POLICE MAGISTRATES ACT 1808 | ||
CHAPTER CXL. | ||
An Act for the more effectual administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace, and for the more effectual Prevention of Felonies within the District of Dublin Metropolis. [30th June 1808.] | ||
Recital of Irish Acts, 35 Geo. 3. c. 36. | ||
36 Geo. 3. c. 30. | ||
39 Geo. 3. c. 56. | ||
40 Geo. 3. c. 62. | ||
Recited Acts of 35 & 36 Geo. 3. and so much of 39 & 40 Geo. 3. as relates to the watch establishment, repealed. | ||
WHEREAS an Act was made in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act for more effectually preserving the peace within the city of Dublin and the district of the metropolis, and establishing a parochial watch in the said city”: And whereas another Act was made in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign, for explaining and amending the said recited Act of the thirty-fifth year, and for remedying the abuses committed by pawnbrokers within the district of the said metropolis or three miles thereof”: And whereas another Act was made in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirty-ninth year of his present Majesty’s reign to amend the said recited Acts of the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of his present Majesty’s reign: And whereas another Act of Parliament was made in Ireland in the fortieth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act for amending and making perpetual the several laws for regulating the watch in the district of the metropolis, and for granting a further duty upon pawnbrokers”: And the said Acts have been found insufficient for effectuating the said purposes: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Acts of the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of his present Majesty’s reign, and every matter and thing therein contained, and also so much of the said Acts of the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of his present Majesty’s reign as relates to the watch establishment, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed; (save and except so much of the said Acts or any of them respectively as repeals any former Act or Acts, or any clause, power, or authority, or provision given or enacted by any former Act or Acts, and save and except so much of the said Acts or any of them as provide for the payment of any salary or salaries to any person or persons in respect of having held any office or offices whatsoever abolished by the said Acts or either of them, and also save as herein-after mentioned.) [Rep. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 97. (S.L.R.)] |