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<p>too often happens while Watchmen do not con<add>si</add>der themselves as amendable to<lb/> | <p>too often happens while Watchmen do not con<add>si</add>der themselves as amendable to<lb/> | ||
Magistrates or liable to punishment for neglect of Duty that they connive at <lb/> offences which they ought to detect and too often extort Money unwarrantably from <lb/> ignorant or timid Persons under the pretence of their being guilty of irregularities: <lb/>and while it would be expedidient for Magistrates to possess the power of punishing <lb/> it would also be of the greatest use that they had the ability of rewarding by small <lb/> pecuniary Gratuities | Magistrates or liable to punishment for neglect of Duty that they connive at <lb/> offences which they ought to detect and too often extort Money unwarrantably from <lb/> ignorant or timid Persons under the pretence of their being guilty of irregularities: <lb/>and while it would be expedidient for Magistrates to possess the power of punishing <lb/> it would also be of the greatest use that they had the ability of rewarding by small <lb/> pecuniary Gratuities such Parochial Officers Watchmen and Patrols as should <lb/> manifest any degree of Vigilance and extortion in apprehending Offenders <lb/> during the night and in watching the motions of the known receivers of stolen <lb/> Goods and particularly those dealers who are meant to be regulated by virtue of <lb/> the propose act. For it often happens at present when such persons apprehend <lb/> Offenders during the Night and bring them before the Magistrates the succeeding <lb/> forenoon that they are often disgusted with the loss of time which such <lb/> attendance occasions and which working people can ill afford without some <lb/> pecuniary recompense and hence it follows that | ||
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too often happens while Watchmen do not consider themselves as amendable to
Magistrates or liable to punishment for neglect of Duty that they connive at
offences which they ought to detect and too often extort Money unwarrantably from
ignorant or timid Persons under the pretence of their being guilty of irregularities:
and while it would be expedidient for Magistrates to possess the power of punishing
it would also be of the greatest use that they had the ability of rewarding by small
pecuniary Gratuities such Parochial Officers Watchmen and Patrols as should
manifest any degree of Vigilance and extortion in apprehending Offenders
during the night and in watching the motions of the known receivers of stolen
Goods and particularly those dealers who are meant to be regulated by virtue of
the propose act. For it often happens at present when such persons apprehend
Offenders during the Night and bring them before the Magistrates the succeeding
forenoon that they are often disgusted with the loss of time which such
attendance occasions and which working people can ill afford without some
pecuniary recompense and hence it follows that
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