The Metropolitan Police Act 1857
WHEREAS it has become necessary to build new Stations and to improve the existing Stations for the Metropolitan Police, and as the Expense of such building and Improvement will exceed the Amount which can be defrayed out of the annual Receipts applicable to the Purposes of the Metropolitan Police, it is expedient that, towards defraying such Expense, a Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds should be raised as herein-after mentioned: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ...