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for various matters not less connected with objects of Police than Revenue
that the whole Establishment might be conducted at an expence not
exceeding £15,000 a Year.
By desire of the Committee Mr Colquhoun produced a Copy
of the Letter Signed by himself and Charles Poole Esq.r bearing
Date 2d May 1798 which had been transmitted to George Rose Esq.r
Secretary to the Treasury in which is contained a detailed
account of the prosed functions of the Central Board & also an
Estimate of the annual expence.
From what Document did it appear to you that the rewards on
the conviction of certain Classes of Felons amounted upon an average to
£15,000 a Year.
I obtained my information from the detailed account of the
Civil List expenditure for the Year ending 1 January 1786 printed in the
639 page of the 4y Volume of the Journals of the House of Commons.
Did you in making your estimates of the numbers of Dealers
in each of the Trades you have specified and the Duty which they could
respectively pay, obtain any actual enumeration of these Dealers.
In estimating the number of Dealers & the Licence Duty
proposed to be imposed on each Class I had recourse in the first Stage
of the Investigation to a person of property who had been himself a
Dealer in Old Iron & Other Second Hand Metals &c and Stuff & Rags
for above twenty years & from whom (he having an extensive knowledge
of the Trade and being also disposed to communicate freely) I received
a great Body of useful & important information and it was principally
by his assistance that I was not only enabled to form an
estimate of the numbers of those Dealers in the Metropolis, but also
a Judgment of the Revenue which might be obtained by means of
Licences.
This information was afterwards confirmed by another Person
who had also been in the same Trade and who (being a person of intelligence)
I employed to procure such additional information as enabled me
ultimately after a vast deal of investigation & Labor to form the
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see note to letter 1329, vol. 6 |
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