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| Brought over - - - - | 1800 | £ 6000 | |
| Per Cent and the Persons concerned in it are mostly fraudulent and for want of regulations do a great deal of mischief - a Licence Duty of £ 5 in Town and £ 2..10 in the country would not be felt. The estimate is - |
1500 | £ 5000 | |
| 3d | Dealers by retail in Hand Stuff and Rags for making Paper. This Class of Men are in an inferior Station & are not only very numerous but very fraudulent. It is a Traffic that is carried on to a great extent and is full of resource. These inferior Dealers are generally supported by the higher Class of Wholesale Dealers. Their Profit runs from 40 to 30 Per Cent but they turn their money often. Their connections are of the worst sort and they extend all over Great Britain but in the Metropolis they are very numerous a Licence Duty of £ 1..0 in Town an 10/ in the Country is proposed to be laid on these Dealers which certainly can never be felt |
4500 | 3000 |
| 4th | Dealers in Second Hand Wearing Apparel &s this is another medium through which a vast deal of fraud & depredation is committed from the ready means which the purloiners of this Species of property have of instantly disposing of it: and because no enquiry is ever made where the property comes from, great inducements are held out. - This Class of Dealers are by far the most numerous and it is of the greatest consequence to Society that they should no longer be permitted to carry on Trade without being subjected to such regulations as will prevent as far as possible the numerous frauds and purloinings which they occasions. In London where the Trade is carried to a great extent and where the profits are from 50 to 200 Per Cent it is believed that a Licence Duty of £ 2..0 Would not be felt and £ 1 in the Country would be equally easy - |
10,500 | 14,000 |
| 5th | Itinerant Dealers in Wearing Apparel &c. It has long been a reproach to the Police that these wandering Jews have been permitted without regulation and restraint to carry on a Trade so pregnant with fraud. By lurking about the Areas Windows Stables | ||
| align = "right"| Carried Over | 18,300 | £ 28,000 |
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police bill |
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[[titles::a brief explanation of the bill for more effectually securing his majesty's stores against embezzlements in the dock yards […]]] |
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[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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