10 Geo. 4,

e. 44.

3 & 4 WILL. IV. CAP. 89.

An Act to authorize the Issue of a Sum of

of

Money out of the Consolidated Fund towards the Support of the Metropolitan Police. [28th August 1833.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the tenth year the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis: and whereas it was among other things therein enacted, that as soon as the police to be appointed under that Act should take charge of any parish, township, precinct, or place, whether parochial or extra-parochial, within the metropolitan police district, it should be lawful for the justices appointed under that Act forthwith, and so from time to time, subject to the approbation of one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, to issue a warrant under their hands to the overseers of the poor of every such parish, township, precinct, or place, by which warrant they should command the said overseers, out of the money collected for the relief of the poor in such parish, township, precinct, or place, to pay the amount mentioned in the warrant for the purposes of the police under that Act, or to levy such amount as a part of the rate for the relief of the poor in such parish, precinct, township, or place; and that the overseers should pay over the amount mentioned in the warrant to the receiver to be appointed under that Act within

forty days from the delivery of such warrant to any one of the overseers; provided always that the sum to be paid for the purposes of police under that Act should not exceed in the whole in any one year the rate of eight-pence in the pound on the full and fair annual value of all property rateable to the relief of the poor within such parish, township, precinct, or place, such full and fair annual value to be computed according to the last valuation for the time being acted upon in assessing the county rate; and that the warrant should specify the rate in the pound upon which the sum mentioned therein should be computed: And whereas it is just and expedient that the said parishes, townships, precincts, or places should be relieved of part of such charge, and that part thereof should be paid out of the consolidated fund, upon certain conditions, in the manner hereinafter mentioned: 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 upon the certificate of one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, that the overseers of the parish, township, precinct, or place have paid all quired under arrears due under the said recited Act, or have made Act have been paid in arrangements for the payment of the same satis- any parish factory to the said secretary of state, and have also tre-sury to raised and paid, within the period prescribed by the said recited Act, a sum equal to threepence in the pound on the full annual value of all property, rated according to the provisions of the said recited Act, towards the discharge of any warrant issued after,

D

poor of any

On certificate from secretary of state that arrears and rates re

the recited

&c., the

direct such sum as shall be necessary in addition

thereto to from consoli

be advance-l

dated fund.

Sum ad

or which shall not have become due before, the passing of this Act, for maintaining the police of the metropolis for the six months next ensuing, the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, shall direct, by warrant under their hands and seals, such a sum for and in addition to every threepence so raised and paid as aforesaid, to be issued and paid from the consolidated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the receiver appointed under the said act, as may be required in addition to the sum raised by such three-pence in the pound, to defray the charge of maintaining the police of the metropolis; and no such parish, township, precinct, or place, having paid all arrears and such three-pence in the pound as aforesaid, shall be subject to any further higher charge towards defraying the charge of the police during the period of six months from the date of any such warrant, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding (a).

2. Provided always, and be it further enacted,

(a) From an examination of the official returns laid before parliament, pursuant to the 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 29, and 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 9, shewing the income and expenditure of the metropolitan police force for the year 1839, it appears that the parishes within the police district are at present required to pay only three fourths of the eightpenny assessment which is directed to be paid by the 10 Geo. 4, c. 44, s. 23; and that the lords of her Majesty's treasury issue warrants for the payment of the remainder of the eightpenny assessment, viz. for twopence in the pound, in other words, the country pay one fourth, and the parochial districts contribute three fourths of the total expenses of the metropolitan police establishment.

to exceed

any one year.

That no larger sum than sixty thousand pounds vanced not shall be issued out of the consolidated fund in any 60,000l. in one year for the aforesaid, and for the gepurpose neral maintenance of the police of the metropolis; which said sum shall be issued and paid free and clear of all rates, fees, and impositions whatsoever. 3. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That Powers of nothing in this Act contained shall alter or repeal any of the powers given by the said recited Act for enforcing the payment of any warrants which may be issued from time to time according to the provisions of the said Act.

recited Act, as to en

forcing pay

ment, not fo be altered.

counting for the money.

4. And be it enacted, That the receiver appointed Application under the said recited Act shall with respect to the of and a application of and accounting for such sum or sums as shall be issued and paid to him out of the consolidated fund under this act, be subject to the same regulations and provisions to which he is subject under the said Act with respect to the monies receivable by him under the said Act.

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29 G. 2, c. 25,

as requires the appoint

2 & 3 VICT. CAP. 47.

An Act for further improving the Police in and

near the Metropolis.

[17th August, 1839.]

10 G. 4, c. 44. WHEREAS an Act was passed in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis, for the purpose of establishing a new and more efficient system of police in the room of the inadequate local establishments of nightly watch and nightly police, within the limits in the said Act specified, therein called "the metropolitan police district" And whereas the system of police established under the said Act hath been found very So much of efficient, and may be yet further improved: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent ment of con- Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of courts leet re- the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That so much of an Act passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster, and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to prevent Nuisances and other Offences within the said City and Liberty, or of any other Act, as requires or authorizes the appointment of any constables or high constable at any court leet, shall be repealed from the passing of this Act.

stables at

pealed.