JB/149/012/001

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Reasons offered in favour of the Bill for establishing
regulations for the purpose of preventing frauds & embezzlements
by obliging certain classes of dealers who are generally known to
be receivers of stolen goods to take out licenses and to subject the
said Dealers to Sunday restrictions mentioned in the said Bill.

(The advantages of the Bill
are these following Viz.)

1...The Regulations proposed by obliging these Dealers to abandon their
fraudulent practices will save an immense Sum to Government which
is lost at present by the embezzlement of the Naval Victualling and
ordnance Stores and which cannot be prevented by any other means
than by regulating the receivers and laying down such a System of
Legislative Vigilance as will render it impracticable to receive Stolen
Goods without detection—and then the evil must be cured, for if there
are no receivers there can be no thieves.

2...These Regulations will also protect Ship owners, owners of Craft in
the River and every Class of Individuals from the most extensive
depredations which are at present committed in which every Merchant
Manufacturer Warehouseman and every other person whether in Public
or private Life and particularly Masters of Public Houses are more or
less interested.

3...These Regulations will banish fraud and introduce Good Morals
among the lower orders of the people by taking away all temptations
to dishonesty.

4...It is a great preventative Plan full of of that Species of regulation
which is likely to meet every subterfuge and trick which is practised at
present by fraudulent People so as to prevent them from committing
Crimes and thereby to protect them against the miseries attendant on
punishment and on vicious and bad habits and by such protection
to promote their own happiness and that of their families by compelling
them to abandon their evil habits and to have recourse to honest
Industry for the support of themselves and families.

Identifier: | JB/149/012/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
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