JB/150/297/003

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Brought over
Licenses 21,900
Duty £38,500
too rich. The Copper is sold is sold to Copper smiths
chiefly in Town who work it up in their Trade.
The Pewter is sold to Pewterers at a very under
Price after being melted also to Toy Makers. The Lead
is for the most part Sold to Plumbers Pewterers and
Toy Makers and the Teutenegge is sold Coach
Ornament founders and to Jews for the purpose
of making bad Shillings and it is not less strange
than true that these Braziers, Coppersmiths,
Founders Pewterers and Plumbers although many
of them are esteemed Men of credit and reputation
from habit and from the temptation of buying
cheap do actually purchase suspicious Articles
every day and even melted Pewter in great quantities:
and hence arises the necessity of including
these dealers and rendering them subject to
the regulations of this Bill otherwise its utility in some
measure would be defeated. The number of Old Iron
Dealers &c by retail in Town chargeable with
a License duty of 40/ and in the Country 20/ may be
estimated in fair Trade at about
5750
5,000

9 Manufacturers of Iron, Brass, Copper, Pewter, Lead &
other Metals purchasing such Articles for the
use of their Trade from Dealers who are not Licensed
to sell are proposed by the Bill to be also subject to
a License duty and to its various regulations: and
indeed for the reasons above stated the System would
be incomplete if these manufacturers were not
included for otherways it would be impossible to
attain the great object of the Bill which is the
prevention of Crimes. This Bill will imminently
tend to protect these different Manufacturers &
founders from a variety of depredations to which
they are liable a present. The regulations will
Carried over
<note>25,650
£43,500

Identifier: | JB/150/297/003"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	297	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50518
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