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The areas involved had already been reorganised for some purposes: The Reform Act 1832 had abolished the outliers for parliamentary constituencies, the Administration Of Justice Act 1839 allowed Justices Of The Peace to act for exclaves surrounded by their county, and constabularies established under County Police Act 1839 had jurisdiction over detached parts of other counties. The text of the act read: :"From the twentieth day of October Eighteen Hundred and Forty Four every part of every county in England and Wales which is detached from the main body of the county shall be considered for all purposes as forming part of that county of which it is considered part for the purposes of the election of members to serve as Knights of the Shire" The Act went on to state that the parts transferred would be incorporated in an existing "hundred, wapentake, rape, lathe or other like divisions unless the Justices of the County declare it to be a new hundred or division." The Act itself did not list the areas transferred, these had already been detailed in the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 64). AREAS TRANSFERRED The Act affected twenty-seven counties. The largest changes were to . Many of these anomalies were dealt with in the 1890s following the passing of the Local Government Act 1894 . Large detached blocks of Warwickshire and Worcestershire interspersed with Gloucestershire remained until 1931 , while Flintshire retained a large exclave until its abolition in 1974 . Bedfordshire Transferred to other counties:
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