The Magistrates (Scotland) Act 1870
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth years of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and one, intituled "An Act to make more effectual provision for regulating the police of towns and populous places in Scotland, and for lighting, cleansing, paving, draining, supplying water to, and improving the same, and also for promoting the public health thereof:" And whereas various populous places have been established and magistrates and commissioners therein appointed unde...