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The punishments here appointed for penalties being imposed on false information
and the still much severer penalty for false
anonymous information, are imposed partly for
the purpose of securing the Board from being misled
by such falshood of that kind, partly for
the purpose of securing the Board and Government
itself from the vulgar imputation of a
wishing to be so so to be deceived. In the former character
it seems to be a provision for which there actually exists
a real and substantial demand: in the other, it seems to bid fair for⊞ ⊞ for making a by
no means unfavourable
impression on the public
mind, affording a remedy
against, and as it
were a compensation for
whatever accession of
force the Board may
appear to present to
the hand of Government.

In the case of State-offences such as treason,
sedition and the like, as no step will be to
be taken by the Board, in consequence of any information
coming under any such head, and as
matters of that nature belong in a more especial
manner to the cognizance of the Secretary of State's
office it may be proper that the Board should, in virtue
of a standing order for that purpose, ha be an be
under the obligation of conveying handing up forthwith every
intelligence of that nature to that Office. An intimation
to that effect might also be made public
on the part of the Board itself, recommending to it
to persons who otherwise might have become its
correspondence, to address any correspondence of that
sort nature to the Secretary of State in preference. But an
intimation of this sort would not of itself be altogether
sufficient to produce the effect desired, because
the lack of distinguishing State offences from other
offences would be a task to which all correspondents
would not be equally competent. An intimation of
this sort would at any rate be sufficient to produce
the other effect in view viz: the securing the Board from against
any unpopularity
that might be apprehended
from that source.

Identifier: | JB/149/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14
Box	149	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d22 / f57
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50022
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