The 1833 Act
The first police burghs were created under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm IV c.46). This act enabled existing royal burghs, burghs of regality, and burghs of barony to adopt powers of paving, lighting, cleansing, watching, supplying with water and improving their communities.
This preceded the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which introduced a similar reform in England and Wales, by two years.
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