The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act created a modern police force by limiting the purview of the force and its powers, and envisioning it as merely an organ of the judicial system. Their job was apolitical, to maintain the peace and apprehend criminals for the courts to process according to the laws..
An act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a specified use.
It was called that mainly because Spain and France had a greater loss of anyone during the epidemic.