Banff Burgh: Police Commissioners' Records

• Reference:GB 228 AS/Bbnf/16
• Dates of Creation:1833 - 1897
• Physical Description:
  2 volumes, 5 bundles, 103 documents

• Scope and Content

  AS/Bbnf/16/1 Banff Burgh: Police Commissioners' Financial records 1840 - 1852

  AS/Bbnf/16/2 Banff Burgh: Police Commissioners' Correspondence 1833 - 1891

  AS/Bbnf/16/3 Banff Burgh: Police Commissioners Assessment Records 1834 - 1854

  AS/Bbnf/16/4 Banff Burgh: Petitions to the Police Commissioners and records relating to the appointment of Constables 1842 - 1855

  AS/Bbnf/16/5 Banff Burgh: Regulation of Carters and Porters 1836- 1855

  AS/Bbnf/16/6 Banff Burgh: Other Police Commissioners' Records 1840 - 1897

  AS/Bbnf/16/7 Banff Burgh: Police Commissioners' Maintenance Records 1836 - 1856

  See AS/Bbnf/3 for Minutes of the Police Commissioners.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  The Police Commissioners were constituted in 1840 under the Banff Police Act 1840 (see AS/Bbnf/16/6/5), with powers over fire precautions, street numbering, paving, sewers, cleansing, lighting and water supply. They also licensed and regulated carters and porters in the Burgh. The Commissioners were the Provost, eldest Bailie and Treasurer of Banff, together with two Commissioners elected by the occupiers of property valued at £2 or over in each of the three wards.

  The Commissioners adopted the 1862 General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act in 1880, and served as the Local Authority under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 and the Road Trustees under the Road and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878. The Commissioners adopted the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 in 1893.

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