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    The Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to the City of London and all places...
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    According to the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 33) and section 9 of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134), it is not...
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    section of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, prohibiting the deposit of goods in the streets, shall not apply to costermongers, street hawkers, or itinerant...
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    According to the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 33) and section 9 of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134) it is not lawful...
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    by the Metropolitan (Great Northern Branch and Amendment) Act 1856 and again later by the Great Northern and Metropolitan Junction Railway Act 1860 (23...
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    British military forces. Peel went on to found the London Metropolitan Police. In 1822, a new act[which?] created four improved "county" constabularies,...
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    suburban streets. In many cases, the sites of these markets became London's modern high streets. In 1867, section six of the Metropolitan Streets Act effectively...
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    According to London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 33) and section 9 of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134), it was not...
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    Public Libraries Act (Scotland 1867) Amendment Act 1871, title. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 25 of this Act. This short title...
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    previous acts (section 12), any Crown rights (Section 13) or the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (Section 14). Drawing on the common law concept of the hue and...
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    suburban streets. In many cases, the sites of these markets became London's modern high streets. In 1867, section six of the Metropolitan Streets Act effectively...
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    Costermonger (category Street culture)
    six of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134), which deals with obstruction by goods to pavements (sidewalks) and streets. There are...
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    Metropolitan Railway (Notting Hill and Brompton Extension) Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. ccxci) and the Metropolitan Railway (Tower Hill Extension) Act 1864...
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    appeared on the streets of London. Ten years later, Metropolitan Police Act 1839 consolidated policing within London by expanding the Metropolitan Police District...
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    1884 until 14 August 1885. Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134) East Indian Railway Company Purchase Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. ccvi)...
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    suburban streets. In many cases, the sites of these markets became London's modern high streets. In 1867, section six of the Metropolitan Streets Act effectively...
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    Scottish parliament in 1611 to "guard their streets and to commit to ward all person found on the streets after the said hour". Within local areas in...
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    In 1867, section six of the Metropolitan Streets Act effectively prohibited street trading. Following public meetings and press criticism, the act was...
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    In 1867, section six of the Metropolitan Streets Act effectively prohibited street trading. Following public meetings and press criticism, the act was...
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    elected board of guardians. This anomaly was rectified by the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 6). The parish was large enough in terms of...
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    Management Act 1855. St Pancras had a local act to regulate the poor law so was unaffected by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30...
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    Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 6), creating the Metropolitan Asylums Board and six new Metropolitan Asylum Districts in London. The Act...
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    Special Branch was a unit in the Metropolitan Police in London, formed as a counter-terrorism unit in 1883 and merged with another unit to form Counter...
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    the Metropolitan Improvement Act. Costing over £1,000,000, it remains a major street within the City. Its construction demolished New Pye Street, named...
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    session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in...
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    Goswell Street formed the eastern boundary of the Clerkenwell parishes, with the River Fleet, now buried beneath Farringdon Road and other streets, forming...
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    metropolitan borough and its council were established in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as one of seven boroughs in the new metropolitan county...
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    first hackney-carriage licences date from a 1662 act of Parliament, the London and Westminster Streets Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 2) establishing the Commissioners...
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    (Amendment) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. cxcvii), which enlarged the powers of the railway company, and the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway Act 1868 (31 &...
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    Canada (category 1867 establishments in Canada)
    text and unwritten conventions. The Constitution Act, 1867 (known as the British North America Act, 1867 prior to 1982), affirmed governance based on parliamentary...
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