(_FREELY ADAPTED FROM THE IRISH RULES._)
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1. Constables who are required to interfere in a street-row must have
fourteen days' notice before they can be expected on the spot of the
disturbance.
2. Policemen will parade the streets from 12 A.M. to 4 P.M., but will
make themselves scarce in the event of meeting a party procession, or
noticing the holding of a public demonstration.
3. Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square, and all other fashionable
trysting-places, shall be considered without the sphere of Police
influence at times of political excitement.
4. Constables shall not congregate on land set apart for workmen's
gatherings, except to organise strikes amongst themselves.
5. The labours of the Police shall not commence before sunrise, or
continue after sunset; and it will be left to the sagacity of
the Public to guard their own property during the hours that the
Constables are off duty.
6. In the absence of the Civil Power, it will be considered contrary
to professional etiquette for any respectable member of the criminal
classes to carry on his unimpeded vocation.
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[Illustration: THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
PRESENT PROPRIETOR (_loq._). "SEE HERE, GOVERNOR! HE'S A
LIKELY-LOOKING ANIMAL,--BUT _I_ CAN'T MANAGE HIM! IF _YOU_ WON'T TAKE
HIM, I MUST LET HIM GO!!"]
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