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Powers of watchmen.
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48. It shall be lawful for such watchmen, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to apprehend all such idle and disorderly persons as they or any of them shall find committing any breach of the peace during the night, or making any improper noise or disturbance, and to detain such persons till morning, and then to carry such person or persons before any of his Majesty’s justices of the peace for the borough, city, town, or place, in which such person or persons shall have been apprehended, to be dealt with according to law.
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