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"THE POLICE OFFENCES ACT."

TO THE EDITOB, Sib, — Kindly allow me space to. correct a blander made by your contemporary, who, as usual, puts his foot m it when touchinf law matters. He recently published an article m which the following sentences occurred :•— " The Police Offences Act, 1884, haa.'ome clauses on which a bye-law could be framed by the Borongh Council whereby it canj effectually deal with the Salration Army demonstrations," and after quoting some clauses from the Act this sapient ad* yiser goes on to say: — " Surely, -based on some of aboTe the Borongh Council should have little difficulty m framing a bye»law to meet the*particular class of nuisance to wh : ch obection is taken." Is it possible that the editor does not know that the Borough Council has no po vers outside the Act under which it is constituted, and that it |has no control orer the police ? The Council can frame no by-laws on the Act m question. Its administration is 1- ft m the hands of the police. Therefore the only result achiered by- the article referred to baa been to display the ign trance of the writer. — I- am, Sea.. EX-COTT VCILLOB. -

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