ADDENDA.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

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The following Orders in Council were published in the London Gazette of Tuesday, October 13th, 1840. The first Order is made under the authority of the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 2, and it establishes Ante, p. 231 two police court divisions, one for Greenwich, the other for Woolwich; and the magistrates to be appointed for such courts are to sit at Greenwich and Woolwich on alternate days for the transaction of business.

The second Order in Council is made under the

joint authority of the 10 Geo. IV. c. 44, s. 34, and Ante, p. 34. the 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 2; and the object of the Ante, p. 53. Order is to direct, that the several parishes, townships, precincts, and places mentioned therein, shall, after the 13th day of January, 1840, be added to, and form part of, the metropolitan police district.

"At the court at Claremont, the 3d October, 1840, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in council:

"Whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the fourth year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for better defining the Powers of Justices within the Metropolitan Police District, it was,

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amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful to her Majesty, with the advice of her privy council, from time to time, to constitute, within the metropolitan police district, so many police court divisions as to her Majesty should seem fit, and to define the extent thereof; and, from time to time, to alter the number and extent of such police court divisions, and to assign a division to each of the police courts already established, and to establish a police court for each of the other divisions; and that it should be lawful for her Majesty, if she should think fit with the advice of her privy council, to order that a police magistrate or magistrates shall attend regularly at any police court or courts thereafter to be established, either daily or on such days and times as her Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, should order.

"Her Majesty is pleased, with the advice of her privy council, to order, and it is hereby ordered accordingly, that the parishes of Greenwich; St. Nicholas, Deptford; that part of St. Paul's, Deptford, which is within the county of Kent; Lewisham and Lea, in the county of Kent; Rotherhithe ; that part of St. Paul's, Deptford, which is within the county of Surrey; and the hamlet of Hatcham, in the county of Surrey; shall henceforth be constituted a police court division; and that a police court shall be established for such division, to be holden at Greenwich, in the county of Kent; and that the parishes of Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton, Eltham, the liberty of Kidbrooke, and the hamlet of Mottingham, in the county of Kent, shall, from henceforth, be constituted a police court division;

and that a police court for such division shall be holden at Woolwich, in the county of Kent.

"And her Majesty is further pleased, with the advice aforesaid, to order, and it is hereby ordered accordingly, that the magistrates to be appointed for these divisions shall attend at the said courts on alternate days, at Greenwich and Woolwich, excepting Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving; and likewise except on Mondays and Saturdays, on which last-mentioned days a magistrate shall attend at each of the said courts; and that on all days of attendance the magistrates shall sit from ten of the clock in the morning until three of the clock in the afternoon, and longer, if necessary, for the dispatch of business.

"And the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, one of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. "C. C. GREVille.”

"At the court at St. James's, the 3d January, 1840, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty n council:

"Whereas by an Act, passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, it was, amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for his Majesty at any time, by the advice of his privy council, to order that any parishes, townships, precincts, and places, whether parochial or extra-parochial, in the counties of Mid

dlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, of which any part shall be situate within twelve miles of Charing Cross, in the city of Westminster, shall, after a certain day, to be named in such order, be added to, and form part of, the metropolitan police district, and be placed under the charge of a police to be appointed under the said Act; and whereas by an Act, passed in the parliament held in the second and third years of the reign of her present Majesty, it was enacted, that any place which is part of the Central Criminal Court district, except the city of London and liberties thereof, and such places as are or may be included in any Act already passed, or to be passed, in the said session of parliament, intituled, An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London; and also, that any part of any parish, township, precinct, or place, which is not more than fifteen miles distant from Charing Cross, in a straight line, may be added to, and form part of, the metropolitan police district; and whereas it is expedient that the parishes, townships, precincts, and places following; that is to say,

"County of Middlesex.—Ashford, Bedford (East), Cowley, Cranford, Drayton (West), Edgeware (including Whitchurch), Edmonton, Enfield, Finchley, Fryern Barnet, Feltham, Greenford, Harrow, Hendon, Hadley Monken, Hornsey, Hayes, Hanwell, Heston, Hanworth, Hampton (Town and Court), Hamptonwick (Liberty), Harefield, Hillingdon, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Ickinham, Isleworth, Kingsbury, Laleham, Littleton, Northalt, Norwood (Precinct), Perivale, Pinner, Ruislep, South Mimms, Stanmore (Great and Little), Stanwell, Staines,

Sunbury, Shepperton, Tottenham, Twyford Abbey, Twickenham, Teddington, Uxbridge (Township and Chapelry), Wilsden;

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County of Surrey.-Addington, Banstead, Beddington, (Wallington, hamlet), Cuddington, Cheam, Croydon, Coulsdon, Carshalton, Chesssington, Ewell (exclusive of part near Walton), Epsom, Farley, Kew, Kingston-on-Thames (Ham-with-Hatch, hamlet, Hook, hamlet), Long Ditton, Mortlake, Maldon, Merton, Mordon, Mitcham, Moulsey (East), Moulsey (West), Petersham, Richmond, Roehampton, Sanderstead, Sutton, Thames Ditton (including hamlet of Ember, hamlet of Weston, and hamlet of Claygate), Wimbledon, Woodmanstowe, Warlingham, Worster Park (extra-parochial);

"County of Kent.-Bexley, Beckenham, Bromley, Charlton, Crayford, Chiselhurst, Down, Eltham (including Mottingham), Erith, Farnborough, Foot's Cray, Hayes, Keston, Kidbrooke, Lewisham, Lee, North Cray, Orpington, Plumstead, St. Paul's Cray, St. Mary's Cray, Woolwich, Wickham (West), Wickham (East);

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County of Essex.-Barking (Town Ward, Chadwell Ward, Great Ilford Ward, Ripple Ward), Chingford, Chigwell, Dagenham, East Ham, Little Ilford, Loughton, Low Leyton, Waltham Abbey (Holyfield hamlet, Sewardstone hamlet, Upshire hamlet, Waltham, Town hamlet), Walthamstow, Woodford, Wanstead, West Ham (Church-street Ward, Plaistow Ward, Stratford Ward);

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County of Hertford.-Aldenham, Bushey, Cheshunt, Chipping Barnet, Elstree, Northaw, Ridge, Shenley, Totteridge, Theobald-street, East Bar