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CITY OF BRADFORD BYE LAWS. 27 MAY 1848. I have in my collection a very fragile copy of the 'City of Bradford Costabulary Code', extracts from which are too large to upload. I believe, however, that it is important that this record should be shared and through this process preserved for the future. I am therefore attempting to transcribe the those contents that are pertinent on this thread (I honestly doubt my own reasoning at times!). It gives an interesting account of a northern industrial town which had developed rapidly in a relatively short period of time and the application of Bye Laws in an attempt to control what must have been a very unstable period in the history of the community. To facilitate this undertaking and to break the document down into reasonablly sized pieces I will start with the introduction and then work through the various chapters :- BYE LAWS. CITY OF BRADFORD : To Wit. At a Special Monthly Meeting of the Council of the City of Bradford, held on Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in pursuance of notice for that purpose duly given, and summonses duly served, at which said meeting more than two thirds of the whole number of the said Council are present, that is to say :- MAYOR. ROBERT MULLIGAN, Esq. ALDERMEN. Joshua Lupton, William Rand, Edward Ripley, Samuel Smith, Thomas Beaumont, Joseph Smith, Henry Brown, Christopher Waud. COUNCILLORS. Joseph Farrar, George Alderson, John King, Edward.H.Parratt, William German, John Gordon, Swithen Anderton, William Metcalfe, James Wade, Henry Read, John Hill (Whitesmith), Samuel Bottomley, James Bilton, David Baxandall, Joshua Brigg, Robert Patterson, John Gott, SAmuel Atkinson, Richard Newby, Charles Rhodes, James Green, John Denby, John Todoff, Richard Margerison, Daniel Firth, John Hill (Malster), John Clayton, Benjamin Berry, William Stead. Whreas, at a meeting of the Council of the City of Bradford, in the county of York, holden on Saturday, the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred andand forty eight, at which said meeting more than two thirds of the whole number of the said council were present, the said Council did order, ordain, and make several Bye Laws for the good rule and government of the said City, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances therein, to commence and take effect from the 1st day of April then next ensuing. And whereas, it is expedient to rescind the said Bye Laws, and to make and ordain certain other Bye Laws. Now it is hereby ordered and ordained by the said Council, and we the said Council, do hereby order and ordain, that the several Bye Laws made by the said Council, on the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, as aforesaid, shall be severally and respectively rescinded and repealed accordingly. And it is hereby further ordered and ordained by the said Council, and we the said Council (more than two thirds of the whole number thereof being present,) in pusuance of the power in that behalf given to us by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of of the reign of His late Majesty, King William the Fourth, intitled "An Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales", do hereby order, ordain, and make the following Bye Laws, to commence and take effect from the 1st day of August now next ensuing, that is to say :-

This is a lovely little Lapel Badge that I picked up a while ago. It is very well made in White Metal and Bakelite? Anybody got any ideas?

Tram Ticket. 1930. Special Constable.

York PAMS. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

Worcestershire SC. Lapel Badge.

Wolverhampton SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. KC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

Wiltshire SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome. KC.

Winchester SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

West Yorkshire SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. QC.

West Sussex SC. Lapel Badge. Brass & Enamel. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

West Suffolk SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. KC. Lapel Badge. Brass. Lapel Badge. Brass & Enamel.

West Riding SC. Lapel Badge. Brass & Enamel. KC. Lapel Badge (Section Leader) Brass & Enamel. KC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

West Mercia SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. QC.

Warwickshire SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

Warrington SC. Lapel Badge. Brass & Enamel.

Walsall SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. KC.

Wallasey SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. KC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel.

Tunbridge Wells SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. LC.

Surrey SC. Button. Chrome.

Surrey SC. HP. QC. Very unusual badge as very few forces issued individually marked HPs to SCs.

Surrey SC. Cap Badge. Chrome. QC. Cap Badge. Chrome & Resin. QC.

Surrey SC. Lapel Badge. KC. Cap Badges (2) KC. Surrey PAMS. Lapel Badge. KC.

Stoke on Trent SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.

St Helen's SC. Two very nice examples of Lapel Badges.

Stirlingshire SC. Lapel Badge. Chrome & Enamel. KC.