1

ON TUS

OFFICES

OF

JUSTICE OF PEACE; CONSTABLE;

COMMISSIONER or SUPPLY;

AND

COMMISSIONER Under COMPREHENDING ACTS,

IN

SCOTLAND;

WITII

OCCASIONAL OBSERVATIONS

UPON

OTHIER MUNICIPAL JURISDICTIONS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

APPENDIXES,

CONTAINING SOME OF THE STATUTES, FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS, AND

WRITS, REFERRED TO IN THE WORK.

Br GILBERT HUTCHESON, Esq. Advocate.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH,

1806.

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Cuap. I. OF POLICE IN GENERAL, I, 8.

$1, POLICE DEFINED, I, 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.

Cuar. II. OF THE LAWS RELATIVE TO THE NECESSITOU'S

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-

Iween 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 cate of the

7''. II.