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of appropriating rewards upon convictions might apply in all
cases whatsoever without any injury to the Public.
The higher character and great purity of the
Judges preclude all suspicion of any abuse of the Public Money
passing through such a medium and such rewards being paid
by the Sheriffs out of the fund already established and not under
the management of the proposed central Board would only
be subject to the Regulations which at present exist.
Would not a Regular annual account of all such expenditure
be a wholesome means of prevention & possible abuse?
I certainly think a regular Annual account of all
expenditure connected with police would under the System
which is contemplated be indispensably necessary and it is none
of the least advantage which I conceive to be likely to arise
from the Establishment of a Central Board that not only the
whole of the disbursements of that Board should come under
the review of Parliament annually extending to all Branches
of Police whatsoever but also that a digested report relative to all
persons tried for offences in every part of great Britain and
likewise all persons convicted distinctly specifying on each column
the particular offence charged on each individual: the number
of Prisoners discharged by Proclamation or Gaol delivery: the
Punishment rendered by the sentences of the Judges on Prisoners
Convicted. The numbers (males & females) who suffer Death, who
are sent to the Hulks. To New South Wales, To Goals or Houses of
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