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6 By authorising the proposed the proposed Board of Police Revenue to
require Security from all Coachmen who shall drive Hackney Coaches after
12 o'Clock at Night and to require that such Coachmen should take out
Licenses under certain restrictions.
7 By improving the Laws relating to cheating & Swindling.
8 By reviving the Existing Laws relative to Handicrafts and Labourers &
to include menial Servants in the same regulations & punishment
for Breaches of Civil Contracts which tend in a high degree to the Corruption
of Morals.
9 By improving the Act of the 2d Geo 3d Cap:28 for preventing Pillage & Plunder
in the River Thames commonly called the Bumboat Act.
10 By reviving Consolidating and improving the Laws now in being and by
introducing new checks for the preventing Frauds Plunder & Pillage in
the Naval & Military Arsenals &c
11 By investigating the cause why the Labour of Convicts have not been
heretofore more productive & why the expences in maintaining them
have not diminished & by considering what legislative & other regulations
are necessary to reduce this enormous expence & to prevent the
Shocking corruption of Morals which arises from the System of the Hulks.
12 By empowering the Attorney General for the Time being to appoint
Counsel for the Crown to conduct all criminal Prosecutions.
All these objects are so far connected with Finance that in proportion to
the extent of the measures which are adopted for promoting & enforcing
the improvements which are suggested in the same proportion will the
Finances of the Country be improved by the diminution of the number
of Persons Convicted for offences & the saving expences which will
accrue from the deduction of Crimes.
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police bill |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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see note to letter 1329, vol. 6 |
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