Musician, London. The (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55, 'Bass's Act' [Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police (Metropolis)'], repealing and strengthening the provisions of s. 57 of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, enacts that any householder within the metropolitan police district, personally, or by his servant, or by any police constable, may require any street musician or street singer to depart from the neighbourhood of the house of such householder, on account of the illness, or on account of the interruption of the ordinary occupations or pursuits of any inmate of such house, or for other reasonable or sufficient cause;
And every person who shall sound or play upon any musical instrument or shall sing in any thoroughfare or public place near any such house after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for anytime not more than three days.
[or in default of payment for not more than one month, Reg. v. Hopkins, (1893) 1 QB 621],
and it shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the metropolitan police force to take into custody without warrant any person who shall offend as aforesaid: provided always, he shall be given in to custody by the person making the charge: provided also, that the person making a charge for an offence against this Act shall accompany the constable who shall take into custody any person offending as aforesaid to the nearest police station-house, and there sign the charge sheet kept for such purpose.
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