[237] 42 & 43 Vict. c. 49.
[238] 50 & 51 Vict. c. 25.
[239] "Police Code," pp. 80 and 81.
[240] These recognizances may be with, or without, sureties; and the obligation "to keep the peace" and "to be of good behaviour" continues during such period as the Court may direct. Cf. p. [49], chapter iii. ante, with reference to the powers conferred on Justices of the Peace by 34 Edw. iii. c. 1.
[241] Bicknell's Police Manual, p. 244.
[242] 34 and 35 Vict. c. 112.
[243] Female holders of licenses are not required to report themselves once a month.
[244] See Bicknell's Police Manual, p. 245.
[245] A complete description of the system as employed in England may be found in a pamphlet entitled "The Identification of Habitual Criminals," published by The Police Review.
[246] See "Our absurd system of punishing crime," by Dr Robert Anderson, in The Nineteenth Century and After for February 1901.