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 RULES 
 
 AND 
 
 REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 ESTABLISmiEST and COVERXMEN-f 
 
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 WATCH AND PATROL 
 
 IN THE 
 
 H-i^llaii 
 
 TOWN OF HALIFAX. 
 
 HALIFAX: 
 Printed by EDMUND VVAIID, No. 15, Barrlnffton- Streets 
 
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RULES and REGULATIONS, 
 
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 "^^ETHEREAS by an Act which passed 
 ^ ^ the General Assembly of this Pro- 
 vince in the Sessions of 18 18, the Magistrates 
 are empowered, under certain enactments, 
 to establish a WATCH and PATROL for 
 the safety of the said Town i, and are au- 
 thorised to make Rules and Regulations for 
 the orderly directing the same. 
 
 The said Magistrates, taking the premi- 
 ses into consideration, have made the follow- 
 ing RULES and REGULATIONS, and 
 hereby direct that the same shall be obser- 
 ved by all the Inhabitants of this Town who 
 shall from time to time be placed upon the 
 lists of persons to form the said Watch and 
 Patrol. 
 
 1. Whenever the Watch and Patrol 
 shall be established agreeably to the manner 
 
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 prescribed in the Act, the Town shall be di- 
 vided as follows : — 
 
 DIVISIONS. 
 
 1. North Suburbs — under a separate 
 . Committee of three Persons. 
 
 2. North Barrack and Pontack Wards — 
 
 under one wU^er do. of three persons. 
 
 3. Court-I louse and St. Paul's Wards — 
 : umkr one other do. of three persons. 
 
 ,4. St, Matthew'h and S. Barrack Weirds 
 '! ' — und«r off\e other do. of three do. 
 , 5. South Suburbs — under one other do. 
 of three jp|er5ons. 
 
 2. The said Comttiittees shall be ap* 
 pointed by the Magistrates, who shall like- 
 wise fill up all vacaficies, and the said Conk- 
 niittees shall within three days after due no- 
 tice to them given, make an Alphabetical 
 iist of such persons resident within their res- 
 pective Wards from eighteen years of age 
 and upwards (not being House Servants, 
 Daily Laborers, or People of Color) as they 
 may conceive to be proper persons for wateh- 
 ing and patroling or capable by their circum- 
 stances to find substitutes. (Clergymen only 
 excepted.) 
 
mder a separate 
 e Persons. 
 Pontack Wards — 
 ), of three persons. 
 :. Paul's Wards— 
 I. of three persons. 
 S. Barrack Wawls 
 r do. of three do. 
 tder one other do. 
 
 ttees shall be ap^ 
 «, who shall like- 
 and the said Conk*, 
 days after due no- 
 - an Alphabetical 
 int within their res- 
 ;een years of age 
 House Servants, 
 e of Color) as they 
 • persons for vvatch- 
 5le by their circum*- 
 i. (Clergymen only 
 
 Town shall be di- 
 
 3« 'The Magistrates having considered 
 and confirmed the hsts, shall transmit the 
 same to the Chairman of each of the seve- 
 ral Committees, who shall cause the same 
 to be entered in a Book to be kept for the 
 purpose, with such Columns as shall con- 
 stitute a regular Roster. And the several 
 Committees shall adopt one uniform method 
 in keeping the Books. 
 
 4* For the purpose of establishing a 
 greater degree of uniformity and regularity, 
 the several Committees are hereby empow* 
 ered to meet collectively at such times as 
 they may agree upon, and having chosen a 
 Chairman may from time to time make such 
 Rules for their private conduct in carrying 
 the directions of the Magistrates into executi- 
 on, as the Majority at such Meeting present 
 may see fit. 
 
 , 5. There shall be provided a nightly 
 V^atch from 
 The 1st Division consisting of four persons. 
 
 2d 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 three do. 
 
 3d 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 three do. 
 
 4th 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 five do. 
 
 5th 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 three do. 
 
 
 
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 "■ 6. The said Committees are likewise 
 empowered from time to time to add to their 
 lists the names of such proper persons de- 
 scribed in Rule No. 2, as may come to re- 
 side within their respective divisions ; and 
 further, that in all cases the customary place 
 where each person shall sleep shall be con- 
 sidered to be his place of residence ; but 
 whenever such new names shall have been 
 added to any Committee list, the same shall 
 be transmitted to the Magistrates monthly, 
 on the first day thereof, for their approval. 
 
 , 7. The Commhtees shall each give no- 
 tice to the persons on the several lists indi- 
 vidually to attend the Patrol, by means of 
 printed papers, which shall specify the 
 night, the hour and place of attendance ; and 
 which shall be left at each persons residence 
 in the forenoon of the day of the time of 
 meeting : And the several persons being so 
 warned, the Committees shall each send a 
 list of such persons to the Office of the Po- 
 lice on the morning of such day when the 
 persons so warned are required to attend ; 
 and the acting Committee-man shall en- 
 dorse his name upon the same. 
 
 8. Any person may be allowed to send 
 
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e likewise 
 dd to their 
 jersons de- 
 ome to re- 
 ions ; and 
 mary place 
 all be con- 
 encc ; but 
 have been 
 same shall 
 s monthly, 
 approval. 
 
 ch give no- 
 1 lists indi- 
 ' means of 
 >pecify the 
 dance ; and 
 s residence 
 he time of 
 ns being so 
 ach send a 
 of the Po- 
 when the 
 to attend ; 
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 ed to send 
 
 
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 a Substitute : but the person so sent shAll 
 have been previously enrolled upon some 
 one of the Committee lists approved by the 
 Magistrates. And whereas it may be an ac- 
 commodation to many persons that the Com- 
 mittees should furnish Substitutes, the seve- 
 ral Committees are hereby empowered to 
 arrange such accommodation with Members 
 of His Majesty's Council, sick or infirm per- 
 sons, persons above the age of fifty years, 
 and medical practitioners, liable to serve, up- 
 on their engaging to pay to the said Com- 
 mittees a sum not less than one Dollar for 
 each and every night on which such person 
 shall be liable to serve. 
 
 9. That the said Committees, either col- 
 lectively or separately, or the Chairmen se- 
 parately or collectively, shall attend the Ma- 
 gistrates when so requested. 
 
 10. The Watch and 1 c;rol of all the di- 
 visions shall assemble at their several guard 
 rooms as follows : — 
 
 Those for the North Suburbs, from 1st 
 October to the 3 1st March at half-past 
 nine o'clock,— from 1st April to 30th 
 September at ten o'clock. 
 
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 The Three centre divisions from 1st of 
 October to 3 1st March at ten o'clock, — 
 from 1st April to 30th September at 
 half past ten. 
 
 The South Suburbs from the 1st of Oc- 
 tober to 3 1st March at half past ten, — 
 from the 1st April to 3()th September 
 at eleven o'clock. And shall quit at 
 Gun-lire in the morning all the year 
 round. , 
 
 11. The several Committees or any 
 collective number of Committees shall ap- 
 point some fit and proper Room for the 
 Watch and Patrol of their several divisions 
 to assemble in, and shall submit to the Ma- 
 gistrates the terms upon which the same can 
 be procured. 
 
 12. And such Watch Rooms shall each 
 be furnished with Printed Rules to be close- 
 ly pasted upon a board and hung up in the 
 Watch Room as the Magistrates shall con- 
 sider to be necessary : and a Constable' s 
 Stafl and a Rattle shall be furnished by each 
 Committee for its Division ; and in order 
 that the several Military Guard Houses may 
 know that such parties of the Patrol have 
 authority to deliver to them the persons 
 
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 lock,— 
 nber at 
 
 of Oc- 
 
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 3teraber 
 
 quit at 
 
 le year 
 
 or any 
 tiall ap- 
 
 for the 
 ivisions 
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 rine can 
 
 mil each 
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 p in the 
 all con- 
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 by each 
 in order 
 ises may 
 rol have 
 
 persons 
 
 
 they may have occasion to commit, tl:- Of- 
 ficcrs and Non-Commissioncd Officers have 
 orders to receive persons from the Patrol 
 carrying such badges and not otherwis:-.. 
 The said StafT shall be every night deliver- 
 cd to tlic Person whom the Committee hx 
 their list may mark No. J, and the Ratd<; 
 to the person marked in the list No. 2, and 
 such person or persons shall be answerable 
 for the same and shall on the morning on 
 which he or they quit the Watch deliver 
 back the Staff or Rattle to the High Con- 
 stable of the Watch ; and from whom he 
 shall have received it at night ; and if any 
 person shall wantonly deface the said Rules, 
 or shall injure, or fail to deliver back the said 
 Staff or Rattle to the High Constable from 
 whom he sihall have received the same, he 
 shall forfeit and pay five shillinci^s and six- 
 pence for every set of Rules so defaced ; and 
 tor every Staff or Ratde Ic^t or defaced, 
 shall replace the same, and shall pay a fine 
 of two shillings and six-pence. 
 
 13. No division Patrol, af^r having 
 committed any person to either of il le Guard 
 Houses, shall have power to discbarge. 
 And the persons marked No. 1, in the list 
 
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 returned by the Committees, shdl for the 
 nio-htbe considered the person commanding 
 the divisions, and shall report the names or 
 the persons so confined in the Guard Hou- 
 ses to the High Constables hereafter ap- 
 pointed. , ,1 1 
 
 14. No person on Patrol shall absent 
 
 himself from his duty after the Watch is 
 set, under a penalty of ten shillings, and the 
 persons marked in the Committee list as 
 No. 1, in reporting to the High Constables 
 thci proceedings of the divisions, shall like- 
 wise state any misbehaviour of individuals 
 of the Patrol during the night ; and particu- 
 larly all absentees after the Patrol is set ; 
 and all houses licensed to sell liquor open 
 after twelve o'clock. ' ' 
 
 1 5. The Committees are directed to se- 
 lect a sulHcient number of discreet household- 
 ers, a list of whom shall be submitted to the 
 Magistrates, three of whom shall by them be 
 put on guard every night, and they shall be 
 considered as High Constables for the night ; 
 shall have the superintendance of all the 
 three guard houses, one to each for the nigh t 
 and shall make their report to the Office of 
 Police in the morning at ten o'clock, and the 
 
shctll for the 
 commanding 
 ihe names or 
 Guard Hou- 
 hereafter ap- 
 
 shall absent 
 he Watch is 
 llings, and the 
 nittce Ust as 
 rh Constables 
 ^ns, shall like- 
 of individuals 
 ; and pavticvi- 
 
 Patrol is set ; 
 ;11 liquor open 
 
 ; directed to se- 
 •eet household- 
 ubmitted to the 
 lall by them be 
 id they shall be 
 s for the night ; 
 mce of all the 
 :h for the night 
 ) the Ofrice of 
 )'clock, and the 
 
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 said High Constables shall remjiin in their 
 several Watch Rooms during the night. 
 
 16. The Clerk of the Police having re- 
 ceived from the several Committees their 
 lists of persons upon duty, shall transmit the 
 said lists to the Magistrate for the night, 
 giving him notice of his or their tour of 
 duty ; and the said Magistrate shall attend 
 the Patrols at their several Guard Houses 
 at the hour directed in the Rule No. 10, in 
 rotation, and he shall insert t^ ^ said lists 
 in Books to be provided at each Watch 
 Room, and shall therein particularly mark 
 all absentees at the hour at which he shall 
 set the patrol : and as the said Books will 
 be considered the principal means of guid- 
 ing the Police Magistrates in inflicting fines, 
 he. they must be carefully kept and deli- 
 vered by him to the High Constables who 
 shall deliver the same to the Police Office 
 on the following morning, together with their 
 Reports, to be inserted under the Magis- 
 trates returns. 
 
 17. The Magistrates shall appoint a 
 Treasurer, and all fines and dues shall be 
 paid into his hands by the Clerk of the Po- 
 lice WEEKLY, together with a list of all such 
 
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 monies ; which weekly list shall form a sin- 
 gle line in the Treasurer's Book:^, and being 
 Liumbcred, shall by reference become a vou- 
 cher to his accounts on the Dr. side, and 
 in like manner an order lor, and tliereon a 
 receipt of payment, shall, by reference of 
 number become a voucher for tlie Cr. side 
 of the Account. 
 
 18. The several Committees shall ap- 
 point one of their number in rotation to take 
 the general management of the division, and 
 to report all circumstances which can or 
 may affect the regularity of the Patrol es- 
 tablishment, and in consideration of that and 
 the other dudes by the Committees per- 
 formed, the several Members theieof shall 
 not be considered liable to perform the duty 
 of Patrol and Watch at night ; neither shall 
 the Clerk of the Police or the Magistrates 
 WHO ACTUALLY PERFORM the duty of visi- 
 ting the Patrol Guard Rooms in rotation, 
 and of taking the General management of 
 the Patrol establishment, be placed upon tlie 
 lists ; that duty and their liability to be cal- 
 led on during the night and the day being 
 considered to be a sufficient compensation 
 to the Public for their exemption. 
 
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