PER CURIAM.
At common law and by statute, the duties of police officers and constables have long been those of "conservators of the peace." RSA 105:3; Sheriffs and Constables s. 3, 80 C.J.S. 154. At least as early as 1842 they were authorized to make regulations in the interest of public safety (R.S., c. 114, s. 7 (1842)), and in 1877 the Legislature extended the authority to regulations "for determining the time of night at which . . . eating...
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