Monarch

GEORGE III

Year

1788

Title

28 Geo. III, c. 45,

Description

An Act for rendering more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Third intitled An Act for the better Execution of the Law within the City of Dublin and certain Parts adjacent thereto and for quieting and protecting Possessions within this Kingdom for the more expeditious Transportation of Felons for reviving continuing and amending certain Statutes therein mentioned and for repealing an Act passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty intitled An Act for improving the Police of the City of Dublin and for other Purposes, Dublin.

Classification

Dublin - law and order, policing; rates - accounts audited; tightening 26 Geo. III, c. 24, Commissioners can appoint 100 additional watchmen, watchmen etc. to be sober, licensee fined 40s if watchman drinking on premises 6 p.m.-6 a.m., penalties for hawkers and pawnbrokers without licences, Commissioners may grant licences on receipt of duties [u]