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6
IId Examination
(£2,000 a year the
expense of Mint
Prosecutions
The Finances of the Country would be considerably improved in as much as
upwards of £2,00 a year is disbursed for mint prosecutions without
lessening the evils not can it be expected until the Bill in question shall
pass into a Law.
4. Amendment of Laws
against depredation
in respect of Receivers
& valuables not
yet comprised with
protection of the Law.
By improving the Laws with respect to the receivers of Stolen Goods
of every denomination & to make the offence of receiving money
Bank Notes Horses Cattle Poultry or any other property the same
as Goods &c
5. By allowing Judges
& Justices to give
money rewards
for services rendered
to Justice.
5th By empowering Superior & Inferior Magistrates by small rewards
to encourage officers of Justice who have rendered meritorious
Services to the Public whether the Offence may be of a Superior
or inferior Class in point of enormity or whether there is a
Conviction or not.
6. Requiring security
a fresh Licence
from Night Coaches
6 By authorizing the proposed Board of Police Revenue to require
Security from all coachmen who shall drive Hackney Coaches
after 12 o'clock at Night and to require that such coachmen should
take out Licences under certain restrictions.
7 Amendment of the
Laws against
Cheats
7 By improving the Laws relating to cheating Swindling.
8 Extending to menial
Servants the Laws
relative to Labourers
& Handicrafts
8 By reviving the existing Laws relative to Handicrafts and Labourers
to include menial Servants in the same regulations and punishment
for breaches of Civil Contracts which lend in a high degree to the
Corruption of Morals.
9 Amending the
Bumboat Act
By improving the act of the 2 Geo 3d :28 for preventing Pillage
& Plunder in the River Thames commonly called the Bumboat Act.
10 Consolidation of Laws
10 By reviewing consolidating and improving the Laws now in being and by
introducing new Checks for the preventing frauds plunder & Pillage
in the Naval & Military Arsenals &c
11 Improved mode
of punishment for
convicts instead of
the Hulk System
By investigating the cause why the labour of Convicts may not
hert of one been more productive & why the experts in maintaining
them have not diminished and by considering what legislative
and other regulations are necessary to reduce this enormous expence
and to prevent the shocking corruption of Morals which arises
from the System of the Hulks. —
12. Appointment of
Counsel for the Crown
for conducting criminal
prosecutions
By empowering the Attorney General for the time being to appoint
Counsel for the Crown to Conduct all criminal prosecutions.
All these objects are so far connected with finance that in proportion
to the extent of the measures which are adopted for promoting & enforcing
the improvements which are suggested with the same proportion will the
finances of the Country be improved by the diminution of the number of persons
convicted for offences & the saving expence which will accrue from the reductiontion
of Crimes.
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iid examination |
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see note to letter 1329, vol. 6 |
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