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be also urged as another reason why Pawn Brokers should pay an additional
Duty the check which would be given to disreputable persons who might
under an improved System be prevented from obtaining Licences. Under the
present System where Revenue more than Police appears to be the object
(since every person is Licenced who can raise £10 for the Metropolis and £5
for the Country) infinite injuries are felt by the lower orders of the
People and frequently great discredit and obloquy are thrown upon
the reputable part of the Trade from the practices of those of
suspicious Characters through whose medium Crime are generated
and the utmost facility afforded in the Sale & disposal of Stolen Goods
all which evils would in a great measure be prevented if a power
existed to refuse Licenses to persons of evil fame who could Produce no
testimonial Character & who could not find Security for good behaviour
It is therefore to be presumed that a Duty by Licence (Grounded on
Security for good Conduct ) on Pawn Brokers as Dealers in Metals Old
Cloaths and other Articles, as well in as upon similar Trades who do not
besides exercise the functions of Pawn Brokers (and which have been
enumerated in Paper No 2) would tend in a eminent degree under the
regulations which are proposed to prevent Crimes by rendering it difficult
if not impossible for disreputable and criminal persons to obtain Licences
Or if so obtained equally difficult to commit offences without detection.

Might it be useful with a view to more Police that without being
Subject to any Licence Duty all Lodging Houses should be
registered and required to give a regular account to the Police Office
of all Lodgers received by them?

I have long been of that opinion and in the Bill for the prevention of Crime
which I drew in the Year 1794 I had it in contemplation to introduce some
Clauses for the purpose of registering Lodging houses whose the weekly rent
did not exceed 10 Shillings. Not that I had any material objection to extend
the Register to all every description of Lodging Houses, but I was restrained from going
farther from an apprehension that objections might be raised from

Identifier: | JB/150/308/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1	1798-03-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	308	Info in main headings field
Image	004	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	see note to letter 1329, vol. 6	ID Number	50529
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