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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



is included, to communicate with 

 your lordship on the subject of these 

 regulations, and to aflord you every 

 assistance in carrying them, if ne- 

 cessary, into execution. I have 

 the honour to be, &c. 



Hawkesbury. 



'Regulations for the Frexervation of 

 good Orllcr, to be adopted in case 

 of actual Invasion, in each Count ij 

 in Great Britain, dated Aug. 12, 

 1804.* 



The magistrates of each division 

 of the county remaining at home, 

 to sit daily at a place to be appoint- 

 ed in each division for that pur- 

 pose. To procure the trust-worthy 

 housekeepers and others to enrol 

 themselves to serve as special con- 

 stables under their orders, where 

 the same has not been already done 

 pursuant to the secretary of state's 

 circular letter of tlie 8th of Novem- 

 ber last. To be attended at the 

 place appointed tor each division by 

 an officer of the volunteer force, if 

 any should remain in that division, 

 and by the chief or supcrintendant 

 of the special constables enrolled for 

 that division. Such volunteer #iVi-- 

 cer and chief of the special consta- 

 bles to receive and execute the or- 

 ders of the magistrates, in prevent- 

 ing and quelling disturbances, in 

 taking up and convTying olfendcrs 

 to prison, in supplying escorts lor 

 all military purposes required by the 

 general or other olHcer left in com- 

 inand of the district, and in fur- 

 nishing a guard for the county 

 gaol or other prisons, if required. 

 If, contrary to expectation, any im- 

 pediments should occur in the regu- 

 lar supply of the different markets, 

 ipyery assistance to be afforded to 



the persons who are accustomed or 

 who offer to supply them, and es- 

 corts to be granted in cases where 

 it may be necessary for the secure 

 passage and conveyance of cattle 

 and provisions. The constables 

 within each division, assisted by pa- 

 troles of volunteers, if requisite, to 

 see that ail public houses witliin the 

 same are orderly and regularly con- 

 ducted, and, if thought necessary by 

 the magistrates, to be shut up at 

 such hours as they may direct ; and 

 to bring all unknown persons, M'ho 

 cannot give a satisfactory account 

 of themselves, before the magis- 

 trates. A certain portion of the 

 constables and volunteers, in rota- 

 tion, to go such different rounds in 

 the nighf, as shall from time to time 

 be prescribed by the magistrates of 

 the division, to whom they are to 

 make their report each morning. 

 The maijistrates of each division to 

 report daily to the lieutenant of the 

 county, or deputy lieuteijants with- 

 in the division appointed to receive 

 the same. The lieutenant, or de- 

 puty lieutenants so appointed, to re- 

 port all matters of importance im-* 

 mediately to the secretary of state 

 for the home department, and to the 

 general or officer wlio shall be left 

 in command of the district, or to the 

 officer who shall bo appointed by 

 him within the county to receive the 

 same, to whom they are to apply in 

 case of wanting further military 

 aid. 



Speech delivered. In) Governor Nugent 

 to the Legislature of the fslund of 

 Jamaica, in December 1803. 



Gentlemen of the council, — Mr. 

 speaker and gentlemen of the assem- 

 bly, — I am happy to have it in my 



power 



* Referred to in the preceding article. 



