JB/150/301/002

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It is humbly presumed that if this Revenue was placed under
district Commissioners instead of being Collected in the manner in practice
by the Stamp office in the Case of Pawn Brokers and by the Tax Office
in lieu of the two Boards of Hawkers and Pedlars and Hackney Coaches
which are proposed to be abolished that great advantage would result to
the Public not only in the prevention of Crimes and in the preservation
or Morals by a more Minute attention to the Characters and pursuits
of Persons authorised to Act as Pawn Brokers than it is possible for
the Commissioners of the Stamp Duties to bestow upon this important
Branch of Police: and it may also be demonstrated that under a better
System the Revenue may be rendered much more productive by new
modifications which Commissioners attending minutely to this object would be able to bestow upon it but which can never take place under
the present System where every Man who can raise £10 may set up
the Trade of Pawn Broking to the great injury of the Poor, if such
person is a depraved or Bad Character.

The Tax Office which it is proposed to place the
Collection of the Revenue arising from the Hawkers and Pedlars &
Hackney Coaches is equally incompetent to the management of these
two Branches of the Revenue on account of the Vigilance and attention
which becomes indispensibly necessary to prevent those abuses which
attach to them & which can only be accomplished by a System of
Vigilance and an attention to Character as well as to a vast deal of minute
connected with the due execution of the Laws which could not in the
Nature of things be accurately managed by a board of Taxes where
the Business is so multifarious & so greatly increased as not to admit
of the necessary attention which such important Branches of Police
require: and considering how much the Police Officers are engaged
it is very doubtful whether bringing the whole of the Judicial providing
with respect to Offences Committed under the Hackney Coach Acts
would not occasion vexatious delays of long attendance waiting for
decision

Identifier: | JB/150/301/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1	1798-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	301	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50522
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