JB/150/302/001

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Pawn Brokers, Hawkers & Pedlars & Hackney Coaches would produce
perhaps £100,000 a Year which being nearly equal to the whole expence of the
Police would ease the Civil List Revenue and the Consolidated Fund
of a Large annual Sum besides establishing regulations not only calculated
in an eminent degree to prevent the Corruption of Morals & in the increase
of Crimes but also to draw from the general arrangements of Police a
sufficient Sum to defray its own expence.

Thus by new modelling the two Boards
which are proposed to be abolished incalculable advantages will result
to the Public which must be lost for ever if the other plan suggested
by the Finance Committee is adopted. For then the benefits resulting
from Guarding & watching 50,000 Persons engaged more or less in
Criminal Traffic would be lost with a new Revenue perhaps of
£60,000 a Year & a chance of a gradual increase by the accession of
new Branches.

Nor can it be argued that any additional expence is to
be incurred by such an arrangement for in proportion as the Revenue
increases the poundage on the Collection will diminish & if the Revenue
of the proposed police Revenue Board shall amount to £100,000 a Year
it is not unlikely that it will be collected at as small a percentage
as any other Branch of the Public Income.

It is a proposition of great importance
to be immediately discussed & understood, because if the present moment
is not seized before the new arrangements are determined upon the
danger is that both the useful Regulations for the prevention of
Crimes and the Revenue arising from these arrangements would be
lost to the Public.

The object is to make the regulations immediately
connected with Arrangements of Police support the whole Establishment
for the prevention of Crimes: The prosecution of Offenders & the
Punishment & Transportation of Convicted Felons. If in addition
to the vast benefits which would arise from the proposed regulations

Identifier: | JB/150/302/001"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	302	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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	50523
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