JB/150/113/001

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Plan of a Marine Police Office
for preventing Pillage and Plunder from Ships and Vessels
in the River Thames.

The various measures adapted by the Merchants for preventing
plunder of West India property in the River Thames aided by
the Police under its improved system having proven totally ineffectual
: and the evil having encreased to a very great degree
whereby a vast annual loss is sustained both by the Public in the
defalcation of the Revenue property it has been suggested that a
System of Police grounded on the existing laws and drawing energy
from an adequate Pecuniary Fund whereby a competent civil
force might be created is the only means by which his enormous
evil can be prevented in any degree, and security extended to
the Importers and to the Revenue

It is therefore proposed that a Marine Police office
shall be established in some convenient street near the Tower of
London in which magistrates duly authorized shall hold petty
Depions and shall have constables and Peace Officers under their
direction for the sole purpose of taking cognizance of Felonies
and misdemeanours committed on goods under discharge and landed
from ships and vessels in the River Thames, that such Magistrates
shall take no fees and shall exercise no jurisdiction requiring any
Legislative Authority that does not at present exist and that the sole
expence shall be defrayed from a fund to be raised by the the Committee
of West India Merchants and Planters who shall manage and conduct
all matters relative to the said Police establishment which do not
immediately belong to the Judicial Functions of the Justices who
may occasionally hold petty Depions for the Punishment of smaller
offences or for examination or commitment for Trial of those
who are charged with crimes of a higher Nature.

The object however of the Committee being rather to establish
a system of prevention than of Punishment the chief labor
as well as of the Major part of the expence of the expence of the
Institution will be employed in measures calculated to increase the

Identifier: | JB/150/113/001"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	113	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	plan of a marine police office / for preventing pillage and plunder from ships and vessels in the river thames
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50334
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