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A Brief Explanation of the Bill for more effectually securing
His Majesty's Stores against in the Dock Yards and other
Public Repository's, and for establishing certain Regulations for
Preventing Frauds and abuses by persons dealing in Second Hand
Naval Stores, Hand-Stuff, Rags, Old Wearing Apparel, Old Iron
and other Metals.

The chief merit of the Bill under review is this — that
while it will raise a Revenue equal to more than the whole expense
of the Police System without laying any burden which will be felt
in any degree by the Persons who are to bear it in consequence of
the immense Profits they obtain in their Trade. It will eminently
tend to prevent Crimes by removing the temptations to commit them.
It will place a thousand difficulties in the way of disposing stolen
property which does not at present exist, and while it checks vice
and immorality in its first progress by taking away those allurements
by which many thousands of the younger part of the community become
Thieves before they know that it is a crime. The Regulations of this
Bill must at the same time protect the King's Stores and the property
of individuals from depredations to an incredible extent Yearly.

The Dealers who are proposed (by this Bill) to be put under
Regulations and to be subjected to a License Duty are that plan only who
have been long known to second the Many of fraudulent Persons and
facilitate and encourage depredations of all kinds by the purchase of
every article of stolen property from a Rusty Key or a Glass Bottle Top
to the richest article of commerce without asking a question.

The Provisions of the Bill if drafted into a Law will destroy
one of the most dangerous combinations which ever was formed for
the support of Thieves of every denomination by placing a species
of Traffic for which there is resource to a considerable extent in a fair
way, in the hands of Persons who will not be inclined or permitted
to encourage and assist the plans and practices of many Thousand
who at present live partly or wholly by Thieving in a little way.
And as it is better to establish regulations for the prevention than
the punishment of Crimes It is sanguinely hoped that if this Bill

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	296	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	[[titles::a brief explanation of the bill for more effectually securing his majesty's stores against embezzlements in the dock yards […]]]
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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Notes public		ID Number	50517
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