JB/150/295/002

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It may also be reasonably presumed that under a System
where the professed object i to promote a diminution of crimes that
the expences of the Police by being cocentrated. By lessening the
number of Convicts and all the expences attending this punish
-ment that the Public will be eased of considerable burthen &
that at all events the increase upon the Old Revenue and the
produce of the new sources which are pointed out will be suf-
-ficient for every expence whatsoever and that the Police will
thereby be made to support itself without any burden upon
the general REvenue of the Country.

The expences of the Police System which is here aluded to
may be stated in Round numbers to amount at present to nearly what follows

Public office Bow Street 6,000
Seven Public Offices 2000 each 14,000
Convicts on the Thames & at Langston 30,000
Expence of Transporting Convicts to new
South Wales & other necessaries about 30,000
Expended in Rewards on the Covictions
of various descriptions of Fellons and in Criminal about - 20,000
Total about 100,000

Identifier: | JB/150/295/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	295	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	general remarks
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50516
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