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[3] Page 5.§.1 [London Police District]. As to the extent here gproposed to be given to the London
Police District, the indications afforded by abstract
utility, precedent being laid out of the question, cannot
be expected to be very determinate. In one point
of view, the more extensive the better, because the
more extensive it is, the greater the more compleatly it will the more certain of improving the
whole of the as its utility embrace the great
field of depredation, and the great market for the fruits of it depredation depredation, viz. Londonthe Metropolis
and such part of the surrounding country, as
may be regarded as being readily accessible to, and
lying within the beat of, the London Thieves.
Whatever be the may be regarded as the extent
of this ideal district, it will be there will be an
evident advantage in subjecting the whole of it to
the inspection of one and the same set of eyes:-
and as the Metropolis and its vicinity is the great
of the and the principal theatre of the dishonest
branch of the trade in second hand goods, so is it
of the honest branch: so that insomuch that within this expanse the scale
of dealing may be regarded as being susceptible of
greater extent than in the distant parts of the Country
or even any provincial Town: whence (, as already
intimated observed the reason for increasing the rule of duty
within the compass of this circle: and thus for the
describing of it, the radius taken from the distance
of travelled by the Penny Post seems not too great. On the other
hand, a consideration the tendency of which is to set
limits to the extension of this circle, is - that the distance
ought not to be so great as to raise to an oppressive pitch reside the trouble of
travelling and expense of an journeys, to Candidates for the
licences and tresses persons where testimony may be received

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Identifier: | JB/150/434/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	434	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50655
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