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Police Revenue

Colq. 1st Examinat:n

1
Causes of the encrease
in the expenses of
Police -
1. Encrease of crime,
a want of prevention
2. Hulk & N. S. Wales
Systems
3. Want of a central
superintending authority
5. Non-adoption of his
Bill of 1794

2
Allowance to the 8 Police Offices
not more than £20,000
a year - this insufficient

3
Proposal for constitution
of a Board of Police
Revenue for collection
of proposed dunew
licence duties, and
to transfer to it the
business of the Hawkers
& Pedlars & Hackney
Coach Offices

4
Subject matter of the
proposed licence
duties trades affording
peculiar facility
to the commission of
depredations

Dealers in
1. Naval Stores
2 Shags &c
3. Old Cloaths &c
4 Itinerant Old Cloaths &c
5. Old Metals
6. Manufacturers purchasing
do from unlicenced
traders.
7. Metal Founders
8. Draught & Hand Cart
keepers for conveyance
of the above second-hand
articles.

Addenda
9. Slaughterers
10. Livery Stable Keepers.

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Colq. 1st Examination

5
Necessity of a Board
for such purposes. Licentiandi
40,000.

6
Expense of Board
not much 15,000
exceeding 100,000

Colq. IId Examination

1
Amount & Details
of Police Expenditure
Detection & Apprehension
London Police Bow Street 6,000
7 Police Officers 14,000

Punishment
Rewards for discovery)
& evidence payable)
on Conviction - - - ) 15,000

Punishment
Hulks - - 30,000
N. S. Wales 35,000
100,000

Exclusive of expenses}
payable out of County} unknown
Rates - - - - - }

2
Expense of last
20 years greatly exceeds
that of 20
years preceding
when convicts were
transported at first
for £5, afterwards
gratis

3
Gratuitous punishment
being now
impracticable, the
only recourse for
diminishing this head
of expence is the
prevention of crimes.

4
Licentiandi repeated
with the supposed amount of
the duties on each
class. 64,000
including Auctioneers
p.2.

5
Consolidation resuggested
p.3

6
Existing revenues
from the Licentiandi
compunded with the proposed
or expected encrease
Hackney Coaches — Gross 28,000 Net 23700 Expected Encrease
Hawkers — — — — — 13,000 5304
41,000 29004
Pawnbrokers 4,598 4598 55002
Horse Dealers 931 931 2019

46529 34233

Colq. II Examination

7
Further benefit saving from
the proposed arrangement
— saving by reduction
of the plunderage on
the King's Naval Stores

8
Also, reduction of the
expence of prosecution
paid by the Treasury
on sundry accounts
not at present distinctly
exhibited.

9*
Expence of Mint Prosecutions
£2,000 a year

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Colq. IId Examination

9
Proposed improvements
enumerated p.5
1. Board of Police
2. Licencing divers
new classes of Dealers
3. Amendment of Mint
Laws, as per Bill.
4. Amendment of anti-
depredation Laws
in respect of Receivers
& valuables not yet
sufficiently protected
5. Allowing discretionary
rewards for services
rendered to
Justice
6. Requiring Security
& fresh Licence from
Night Coaches.
7. Amendment of Laws
against Cheats
8. Extending to Manual
Servants the Laws relative
to Labourers
& Handicrafts
9. Amending the Bumboat
Act.
10. Consolidation of
Laws
10* New checks to
plunderage of
King's Stores
11. Improved system
for working Convicts.
12. Appointment of
Counsel for the
Crown for Criminal
Prosecutions.

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Colq. III Exam.n

1
Hawkers Surveyors
to be employ'd for
the other Licentiates
p.1

2
Expence of aboard
not much above £15,000
Commissioners 5
Secretaries 2
Cashier 1

3
Having the power
of refusing renewal
of licences to Pawnbrokers
the alledged
reason of including
them in the Second
Hand dealing Licences — but as
they might abstain
from these discharge
better to
them extend the
power of refusing
to the present licence
p.

4
Appearance of subjecting
Lodging Houses to
licence — always
shd — thought in
1794 the public
spirit would not bear
it — now thinks it
would. approves
of a small duty
as such Horses
avoiding these new
classes. 2.7. and
that they should be
bound to furnish
a Register of the
Lodgers. The duty
would fix the attention
of the Board
to each offense of it.

5
To subject public
houses in the County
too strong a measure —
In trust
of the influence of
the Board over the
County Magistrates
5
— would not therefore
disturb the present
system. p.9

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Colq. III Exam.

6
For a view of the
proposed system of
registration for licentiates,
reference
to his Bills &
Reasons p.10

7
Approves of J.B.'s
plan pp. 11 & 12

8.
Inefficiency of the
Hulks. pp. 13& 14

9
Being as
to the Ramifications
of his plan
of Police, and the
Correspondents of
the Central Board
he answers that the
Licences correspondents
in the County
would be the most
Active Magistrates —
his Licencers either
the Magistrates
who licence Alehouses,
or surveyors
to be appointed by
the Board. p. 14, 15
three might come
on the Police Gazette
for Correspondence

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Colq. III d Examin.n

10
For checking the
power of rewarding
proposed after Justices
of the Peace he
proposes they should
make monthly Returns
to the Board
and draw upon
the Secry for the
Rewards stating
the ground of
Reward in each
case according
to presented forms
— Judges require
no check p. 15,16

11
Being asked about
a regular annual
account of expenditure
as a check
he approves of it
and adds a proposal
for a Calendar
of Delinquency.
— add as an object
of comparison, an
account of the Informations
year
of offences p. 17
18.

12
Being asked about
a power of making
By laws, approves
of it. pp 18,19.

Identifier: | JB/150/323/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1	1798-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	323	Info in main headings field	bumboat bill
Image	002	Titles	ordo propositus / additions proposed in coln's paper
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50544
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