The Dublin Police Act 1859
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-nine, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to appoint Two fit Persons as Justices of the Peace for and of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, to execute such Duties as are in the said Act specified or referred to, and the said Act also empowered the said Lord Lieutenant to direct that an annual Salary ...