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+ + 6 o 3 Police Bill
1.
Preamble
General
Preamble
Whereas by the natural facilities administered afforded by
certain divers trades and occupations to the receipt and
purchase advantageous disposal of goods smuggled or stolen or otherwise unlawfully
obtained, great and constant manifest encouragement is afforded to Larceny
and other species of depredation, which in to the reproach &
injury of the fair trader, [as well as to the insecurity [+] [+] of property in general
encouragement inasmuch that the said trades are in
of the property of the subjects of this ]
instances carried on by persons whose
which encouragement might be done and such unlawful
dealings in a great measure suppressed degree repressed where<add>
the exercise of and moreover and in addition
and his Majesty's revenue at the same time
augmented, were the exercise of the said trades
and occupations subjected by means of licence duties to proper regulation
and control And whereas great difficulties
are daily experienced in investigating and pursuing the traces
of delinquency for want of an all pervading system of national Police
having its chief or control point in the Metropolis, and from there maintaining a close
and connected chain of correspondence byreceiving
information from all ports said communicating
the same with regularity and promptitude to all ports in this United Kingdom,
by a <add>permanent authority which [+] might moreover</add> stand charged in an especial
[+] in consideration
of the continually
accumulating body of information and
experience, so
obtained collected and preserved
[+] in consideration of
in of
the experience so
obtained
manner with the duty of reporting to his Majesty or Parliament and if possessing and thereby
execution and effect and from time to time and mastering
improving for <add> further ammendment and improvement [1] </add> all such measures as [+] by the and mastering [+] may have been
of of Procedure may to the better more effectual prevention as well [+] may <add> forward of time to time have been taken for the
[1] 1a Observation
as of
manner with the business of advising and saluting and from time
to time reporting to his Majesty in Parliament
such measures as in the judgment of the persons
so charged shall appear conducive to
the prevention of (predatory and other offences crimes and misdemeanours) [ to the
the demand for (punishment,] such to the
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jeremy bentham |
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