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It may also be reasonably presumed that under a System
where the professed object is to promote a diminution of crimes that
the expences of the Police by being cocentrated. By lessening the
number of Convicts and all the expences attending this punishment
that the Public will be eased of considerable burthen &
that at all events the increase upon the Old Revenue and the
produce of the new sources which are pointed out will be sufficient
for every expence whatsoever and that the Police will
thereby be made to support itself without any burden upon
the general Revenue of the Country.

The expences of the Police System which is here aluded to
may be stated in Round numbers to amount at present to nearly what follows

Public office Bow Street £6,000
Seven Public Offices 2000£ each 14,000
Convicts on the Thames & at Langston 30,000
Expence of Transporting Convicts to new
South Wales & other necessaries about 30,000
Expended in Rewards on the Covictions
of various descriptions of Fellons and in
Criminal about - 20,000
Total about £100,000

This expence will unquestionably be diminished as the System of
management improves. — The chief part of it arises from the
increase of convicted Fellons. In proper time as the number of
these unhappy outcasts are either diminished or a better system
adapted for the purpose of making their Labor productive in the
same proportion will the expence of the Police establishment
be lessened.

It is impossible to speak with certainty as to exact amount
of the Revenue that may arise from the new Licence Duties which
are proposed to be levied on thirteen different Classes of Traders
who are supposed to give facilities in many instances to the
Commission of Crimes but the probability is that from this source
may be drawn in short time a sufficient fund for every pur-
-pose connected with Police Expenditure so as to releave the
general Revenue of the Country completely of this great and
increasing Burden.

Identifier: | JB/150/295/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	295	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	general remarks
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50516
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