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Short Sketch
of the Bill
For the more effectual prevention of Depredations in the River Thames

The provisions powers & regulations established by the Act commonly
called the Bumboat Act (2. Gr 3. c 28) are the
only locally-approviate powers and regulations provisions as to on which
the efficiency of existing temporary Marine
Police Office depends for whatever degree of efficiency
it has been enabled to display — The experience
of the twelvemonth experience has provided given birth to
a variety of incidents which concurring in shewing
that that Act
has brought to light a variety of points on which
that Act fails of being commensurate to its object

It is for the purpose in the view of supplying these deficiencies
that the proposed Bill has been proposed.
The leading objects of it are as follows.

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