Dublin Police Magistrates Act, 1808

Publicans, pawnbrokers, &c. to give notice of their names, abode, &c.

50. And . . . that every person selling or being licensed to sell beer, ale, or spirituous liquors, or exercising or in any way carrying on the trade and occupation of a pawnbroker, watchmaker, buyer of old iron, lead, copper, tin, pewter, or other metal, gold and silver only excepted, or old building materials, and all and every dealer or dealers in old furniture or old cloaths, all and every broker or brokers dealing in any second-hand goods or commodities whatsoever, or stablekeepers, or other persons letting any horse, mare, or gelding for hire within the said police district shall in every year before the twenty-fifth day of March give notice of his or her name, place of abode, and occupation to the divisional justices of the division in which he or she shall reside by a note in writing, stating the said matters, and directed to the said divisional justices, and left for them at the police office of such division, or with some of their clerks or constables belonging to such office, and as often as he or she shall change his or her place of abode shall immediately give a like notice according to such new place of abode; and as often as such notice shall be given such divisional justices or any of them shall grant a certificate to such person or persons of his, her, or their having given such notice, for which certificate such person or persons shall not be liable to pay any fee or reward; and every such person who shall fail in giving such notice shall upon conviction thereof forfeit the sum of five pounds.