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[14] [Class in the ] p.8 [ ] [Over and above any licence dutiesClass of person to Class 9th. p.8
in the Bill will be a very extensive, and thence
a very productive class. Ifan opposition in the part of so expensive and opulent
a class with the Gold and Silversmiths at their head
do not prevail in is not to be apprehended,
surely little can to be apprehended from the class
of Furniture Brokers. In a Police point of view
it may be objected, that here is a prodigious
number of honest tradesmen subjected to the
inconvenience clacurb of a licence, for the sake of
curbing a few dishonest ones: but in a financial
point of view it may be answered, that
notwithstanding the proposed lightness of the duty
upon this class, the multitude of the persons subjected [+] are already subject to a licence duty of £5, [by 31 G.2.c.32 and 32 Geo 2.c.24] collected by the Excise: though not the discretionary power attracted to the proposed Licence d
to it will be such as to afford no contemptibly
accession to the Revenue Goldsmiths and Silversmiths
under the names of Dealers in Gold and Silver plate and
of Gold and Silver under the name of , [+]

[13] Class the eleventhtenth] p.9.12. In this the Times of Monday
15th Oct. 1798 there is an account of an examination
of a Masterman and his Servant for stealing bricks[+]:
If an article of so little value in proportion to bulk affords
affords subject matter for depradation to persons of this Master
condition in lifer, in how much greater a degree of must
this be the case withto the temptation be in the instance of such articles as stone and
marble slabs and chimney pieces? N.B This
does not seem to be a class from which any thing
like opposition is to be apprehended.

Identifier: | JB/150/451/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	451	Info in main headings field	part i observations police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f23
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50672
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