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Metropolitan Police Act 1839

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XXVCertain Boats subject to Provisions of 7 & 8 G.4 c.lxxv.

And be it enacted, That from the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thiffy-nine every Person who shall use, work, or navigate any Boat whatsoever Upon the River Thames for the Purpose of selling, disposing of, or exposing for Sale to and amongst the Seamen or other Persons employed in and about any of the Ships or Vessels upon the said River any Liquors, Slops, or other Articles whatsoever, between London Bridge and Limehouse Hole, shall be deemed to keep such Boat for Gain, and shall be within all the Provisions of an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Watermen and Lightermen on the River Thames between Yantlet Creek and Windsor, concerning Persons who keep, within the Limits of the said, Act, any Boat to be let out for Hire or Gain.

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