JB/150/323/003

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Bumboat Bill 27 May 1798 Ordo proposition
1. New offenses
described - with
their penalties
2. Powers for seizing
the subject
matter of this
the persons concerned
in such
new offenses
1. New Offienses
2. Having in possession
suspected
goods. within what local limits?

2. Conveying or assisting in conveying suspected goods
3. Throwing goods
overboard from
a boat

Quere within
what local limits
Proviso for
storms, leaks
Quere what other
necessary occasions
for throwing
things overboard

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Additions proposed
in Colq's Papers
1. Penalties &
2. Power of arrest extended to assisters
in the conveyance
of (parts of cargo
unlawfully procured)
in Boats
2. - Persons having
care and charge
of such Boats
Yes if present in
the Boats - but
quere if absent?
it seems yes, by
what comes in the
last page - But
when a man hires
a Boat how can
the owner tell what
he intends to do with
it? He will not
say this is to
steal in. 3. - throwing
or causing to throw
or assisting in throwing
goods out to prevent
detection
4 Persons having
care and charge of
such Boats is suspected to have known of and assented to the throwing any thing overboard to prevent detection
4. If absent,
what occasion to
give any such assent
- yet absence
(as above) seems to
be supposed.
5. Power for detaining the such Boat and Crew given by the existing Act to be extended to this new offense
6. Power for detain apprehending on shore the carriers of suspected Goods in Boarts -to be given to the under the original Act s 5.

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Offense 1
6. 7. Having in possession
goods
Sugar "or other
"articles" loose or
unusually packed
sufficient ground
of suspicion no?
or with habiliments
favourable
to the stowage of
goods in large
quantities
stowed in and about
their persons in
a secret and unusual
manner
8. Search seizure
& apprehension arrest
night as well as
day for suspected
goods
9. Penal 9 Misdemeanour not to
apprehend detain
offerers of suspected
goods to sale or
pawn. Thief's
evidence good if
corroborated. Thief
to be pardoned say pardonable on giving
such evidence
10. Offenders against
this or
other Acts to be pardoned
on discovering
& con... a
seizure of stolen
Goods.
11. Pun ishment
proposed to be
rendered corporal
over Imprisonment
& Whipping p...
being made
up by subjscription
12 Free Waterman
offending
to lose his freedom

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Identifier: | JB/150/323/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1	1798-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	323	Info in main headings field	bumboat bill
Image	003	Titles	ordo propositus / additions proposed in coln's paper
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50544
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