JB/150/172/002

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Coin Police May 1799 Colquhoun Amendments

New offences to
be created per
Colquhoun

1. Counterfeiting
money not milled
as well as milled
p.123. i:e:
milled

2 Buying base
money to recolour
it. p.123

3. Altering base silver
in exchange
p.123

Copper

4 Making Tools &c
for making Copper
money. p.125

5. Plain Halfpence
not included
in the description
of the Offence

6. Nor Irish Upper
Halfpence

7. Nor flattening mills
for blanks p.127. No 14

8. Nor Tokens
p.126. No 21

Foreign

8 11. El. c. 3. Making
counterfeiting it
misprision of Treason,
seemed obsolete

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New Powers to be
created according
to Colquhoun

1 - Power to seize
counterfeit coin in
possession of Known
Dealers or Reputed
alterers:

2. Power to search
Houses or Workshops
at Night
and with Force
p.124 as in Lottery
Offices

3. Power for seizing
Copper money. p. 124
no 9

Rewards

1. Reward of £40
by 6 & 7 W.3.
c. 17. & 15 G.2.
c. 28 does not embrace
Coining &c in
all its operations
p.126 No 10

Copper

2. £:10 Reward
by 14. G.2. c. 28
insufficient p. 126
no 10

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Punishment inadequate.
per Colquhoun

Selling copper money
for less than it was
worth — is only Imprisonment
- generally
for a year — should
be felony p. 124 no 7 p 127
no 13

Prosecution - Time for limited
too narrowly

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Tokens Proposed Hereunder
Licencing Tokens
sub modo proposed
p.126. no 11.
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Identifier: | JB/150/172/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1	1799-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	172	Info in main headings field	coin police colquhoun rudiments
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50393
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