Oxford Police Act, 1881
CHAPTER xxxix. An Act for continuing and maintaining a United Constabulary Force in and for the University and City of Oxford. [3rd June 1881.] WHEREAS by the Oxford Police Act 1868 (herein-after called "the Act of 1868") after reciting that the powers of watch and ward within the University and City of Oxford had been theretofore customarily exercised during the night by the chancellor masters and scholars of the University of Oxford and during the day by the mayor aldermen and citizens of t...