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Another regulation calculated to give energy to executive Justice might
be introduced with great utility into this Bill namely the Power of granting a
concurrent Jurisdiction to the County and City Magistrates in their respective
Districts so far only as relates to the issuing of warrants for apprehending
offenders or searching for Stolen Goods. This could not be construed in any
Respect as an abridgement of the Power of the City Magistrates, on the
contrary it is a proposition which unequivocally tends to extend their
Power for the Benefit of every Person living within their Jurisdiction.
It is well known at present that the want of the concurrent Jurisdiction
has afforded infinite Protection to Thieves receivers of Stolen Goods and
other criminal Persons who would not have found as asylum alternately
in the City or County had such Jurisdiction been established. It is
not meant by this proposition that the County Magistrates should act
in any respect within the City or have any Jurisdiction father than
punishing criminals promptly upon information received and bringing
them before the City or County Magistrates as the case maybe to be examined
within their respective Jurisdictions. At best the objection resolves itself
into a mere Punctilio and the Question is whether an objection resting
on so flimsy a foundation should obstruct the course of Substantial
Justice to the infinite injury of both to the City and County It is only necessary
to direct the attention to the practices of criminal People residing in Petticoat Lane in Grub Street
in Chick Lane, Field Lane and other parts skirting the County where
Culprits by the mere act of crossing the street laugh at the Officers of Justice
and elude the Course of the Law at the same time defeating the Vigilance
and the exertions of the Magistrate. Not is this all it not being the
Practice of the City Magistrates to attend official Business in the
evening , Offenders are permitted from this Circumstance to range at large
and to commit their depredations with impunity.

It would be further worth Inquiry whether some system could not
be established whereby Parish Constables Officers and Patrols could not be
more immediately under the Jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrate so far as relates to that

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