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Punishment of drunkards, &c. guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour.
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15. Every person who shall be found drunk in any street or public thoroughfare within the police district, or who while drunk shall be guilty of any riotous or indecent behaviour, and also every person who shall be guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in any police station house, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than forty shillings for every such offence, or may be committed, if the justice before whom shall be convicted shall think fit, instead of inflicting on him any pecuniary penalty, to the house of correction for any time not more than seven days.
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