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Police Report 4

Instrument or introductory <add>of the <add>a preparation : the power <add>a of conviction or acquittal
being referred to a tribunal of a higher
or more complex nature — usually a Judge
and Jury. In this It is in better class of cases, though
the power is bi less absolute, the business is most important: [+] the supposed magnitude
of the delinquency, and
the quantity of punishment
in question being so much
greater: and even in these
cases though the power of
acquittal is not possessed
by the Magistrate, yet the
power of discharging is,
which in the instance
of persons of mean account,
that is the great bulk multitude of
persons falling under examination,
comes much to the same thing. It is
difficult therefore to say
in which of the two classes
of cases probably would
be of most regular a regular system of Book
keeping and publication
would be of most use. The
publication of the name
of the delinquent would
in many cases be of itself
but too severe a punishment.
But this might be avoided.

Of the heads of expense arising out of all
these several stages one and one only has
happened to come in its full extent under
the cognizance of Your Committee. This
is that of Rewards payable by either on
conviction of Felons. Being paid by Sheriffs
and allowed in their accounts, which in
every instance pass through the Exchequer,
they are thence received in the Exchequer,
and having been required from thence, have
been returned to your Committee. This was
among the heads r included in a return
of heads of expenditure in the account
of Convicts, made up principally of the expense
of punishment belonging to the in [+] [+] resulting from the
two systems of punishment
established
on board the Hulks and
in New South Wales.

6 7
Expense of rewards
for evidence. Comparative
expense of
the last period of
11 years and the
last but one.

A return which of this sort had been made to a former
House of Commons for a period of eleven years
ending in 1786 suggested to Your Committee
the obtaining a correspondent return
for an equal period of Years ending in with the for the period of 12 years that has elapsed between that
time and the end of the last year 1797. [+] [+] Omitting the last year for
the purpose of obtaining a
period of 11 years to compare
with the preceding period of 11 years. The total of the sums
paid on account of rewards for the conviction of
Felons in the former period of eleven years,
is £89,150: the total for the latter period,
£88,470. The similarity is remarkable:
and it affords some satisfaction to observe that
the difference is rather on the side of diminution
than increase.

Identifier: | JB/150/403/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	403	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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