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II Expenses of Prosecution 2)
In the meantime documents sources of calculation are not altogether
wanting by means of which a sort of rough
estimate may be made with regard to the
probable total amount of this branch of the
public expense. By the public spirited Instances are not altogether
wanting, of several Counties, by the public public spirited and spontaneous
exertions of the Magistracy, these Accounts
have been made public by insertion in the
Newspapers for a successive course of Years.
Cornwall and Dorsetshire and Cornwall may be
instanced as examples.
From the sum of the items belonging to this head
as extracted from the accounts of these two
Counties, an inference may be drawn in this
way respecting the probable amount for all
the Counties of England and Wales taken together -
as thus

In 1787 the ratio of the amount of the County
expenses of each County to the amount of
the sum of the expenses of the several parishes was that
County for an average Year composed of the
three preceding Years 1784 1785 & 1786 was is
known by from the Returns made to Parliament
in consequence of the Act of Parliament for
that purpose. Hence from these documents [+] [+] compared with the
documents furnished by
the Counties of Dorset
and Cornwall as above
mentioned we may obtain these
proportions:
1. As the sum of the

Identifier: | JB/150/408/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	408	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50629
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