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ON THE
OFFICES
OF
JUSTICE OF PEACE; CONSTABLE; COMMISSIONER or SUPPLY;
SOME OF THE STATUTES, FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS, AND WRITS, REFERRED TO IN THE WORK.
BY GILBERT HUTCHESON, Esq. ADVOCATE.
VOL. II.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH.
1806.
CONTENTS
THE SECOND VOLUME.
BOOK III, OF THE POLICE, 1, 361.
CHAP. L. OF POLICE IN GENERAL, 1, 8.
§ 1, POLICE DEFINED, 1, 2.
2, ANCIENT REGULATIONS CONCERNING POLICE,
4, 8.
Anxiety to hold money within the realm, 5; re-
gulations concerning dress, 5, 7; the table, 7; re-
creations, ib.; restrictions on property, 8.
CHAP. II. OF THE LAWS RELATIVE TO THE NECESSITOUS
POOR, 9, 65.
§ 1, GENERAL VIEW AND HISTORY, 9, 25.
Among the ancient heathens, 10; the Jews, 10,
18; the early Christians, 18; in Scotland before
the reformation, 19; first compulsory provision,
20; original similarity, and present difference be-
tween the English and Scottish poor-laws, 20;
unfair prejudice against poor laws in general, from
the baneful effects of the English system, 21, 24;
salutary operation of the Scottish system, ib.
2, FUNDS IN SCOTLAND FOR MAINTAINING THE
POOR, 25, 51.
No fixed tax, 25; general meeting, 29; inquisi-
tion taken, ib.; wise precautions, 33; votes, 34;
presence of the heritors not indispensable, 35; juris- diction of the justices of the peace in case of the
V'o'. II.