JB/150/306/004

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This estimate was found in the year 1794 when it was in contemplation
to bring in a Bill which I had then prepared for regulating
these Dealers who were supposed at that period to include
every Class of open Dealers who either directly or indirectly promoted
Larcenies or Felonies. In ascertaining these numbers and the amount
of the License Duty such Classes of Dealers were supposed to be able
to pay. I had recourse to the assistance and opinion of Persons acquainted
with the various Trades: but in an investigation so extensive
Calculations of this sort where so much hangs on conjecture cannot
in the Nature of things be correct but no doubt can be entertained
of a very considerable Sum being raised in this way to which may
be added the following Branches which have since occurred to me
as proper to be regulated. namely.

1 Persons Licensed under the Act 26 Geo 3 to Slaughter Horses )
& c £10 in Town & £5 in the Country — ) £1000

2 Auctioneers an additional License Duty to bring them )
under regulations — ) 6000

3 Persons keeping Livery Stables and Letting Horses for Hire )
at 1/6 a Stall presumed to yield — ) 10,500
£17,500

But as a necessary System of energy cannot be established so as to
give effect to the regulations what have thus been proposed for the
prevention of Crimes: and as a Board of Commissioners appear to be
necessary for this purpose, I beg leave humbly to suggest to the Committee
whether instead of establishing the two Boards for Hackney Coaches
and Hawkers and Pedlars it would not be a beneficial measure
in a financial point of view to consolidate them into one Board &
to Place under their management as a Board of Police Revenue or

Identifier: | JB/150/306/004"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	004	Titles	committee of finance p colquhoun esqr 2d examination
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 1329, vol. 6	ID Number	50527
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