JB/150/479/001

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§. 8. [1*][40*]["Receiver General . . . shall be appointed &c . . . . . by the
". . . . . Treasury, and not by the . . . . Police - "

As it can not be intended that the Commissioners
of Police or any of them should derive any advantage
from any monies lying in their hands, it
will be a matter of personal relief, which is no more than due to them to them thus to discharge
them of all responsibility on that score, especially
as since if they were all empowered to receive
monies belonging to the Fund, some might come
to be personally responsible for monies that others
had received: and there seems a public use
in making the Receiver altogether independent
of the Commissioners, since if he were otherwise,
it is a conceivable case that an influencing member
or two of the Board might find means to derive
an indirect advantage from monies improperly
drawn out of or continued in the Receiver's
hands. The recommendation given by the
Committee of Finance 28th Report, p.
is - that the existing Receiver
General of the t existing Police Officers shall
likewise be Receiver General of the proposed Board:
but, for the fulfilling of this recommendation, should
it be thought fit, the Treasury Board is fully
competent without any special authority from Parliament.
So (it may indeed be deemed) are they
with respect to the appointment of a Receiver generally,
and of the making keeping him independent of the Board
of Police. For giving them authority so to do, no
words in the Bill were accordingly necessary: but
for the reason abovementioned, it there may be a
use in rendering it a matter of obligation: and for
this purpose a clause in the Bill would be necessary.

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Identifier: | JB/150/479/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	41*
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	479	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f50*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50700
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