JB/150/306/002

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The measures therefore that appear to me best calculated to reduce
this expence is the establishment of a more correct and energic
System for the
prevention of Crimes as the surest means of lessening the number of Convicts
and thereby diminishing the expences which are at present incurred
rewards for apprehension and detection and in maintaining and Transporting
Convicted Felons.

The increase of Crimes and of Course the vast accumulation of Convicted
of Convicted Felons within the last twenty Years and particularly since the
adoption of the System of the Hulks and of Transportation to New South
Wales has occasioned a great augmentation of expence compared with
what was incurred the preceding twenty Years previous to the breaking
out of the American War when a custom prevailed of assigning the Services
of Convicts to Merchants who Transported them to Virginia and Mary Land
at first on receiving a Premium of £5 for each and afterwards (as I have
been informed) without any premium at all: and paying the whole expences
of Transportation.

As however this System cannot now be followed up the most
obvious means of easing the Public of the enormous and encreasing Burden
of the Police Establishment is by certain legislative Arrangements which
shall in their operation not only tend in a certain degree to prevent the
Commission of Crimes but also establish a Fund as it were out of the
Vices of the more depraved part of the Community perhaps equal to
the whole expences of Police Establishment.

To effect this Salutary purpose the first object would be to impose
a Licence Duty and to place under proper regulations all those Classes
of Dealers who are known to be generally purchasers or receivers of Stolen
Goods of & who by giving facilities to criminal and depraved characters tend
in a certain degree to promote Felonies and Larcenies of every description.

Identifier: | JB/150/306/002"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	306	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	committee of finance p colquhoun esqr 2d examination
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Notes public	see note to letter 1329, vol. 6	ID Number	50527
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