JB/150/498/001

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[ ][ ] Page 36. §. 15. [ . . May . . . examine the party applying
for such licence ]

Two securities, or apparent supposed securities, for good
behaviour, which are employd in the case of Alehouses
are omitted (it may be observed) in thise present case: Lest the omission the Certificate
of good character</hi>, and the Recognizance. — The effect <add>On inquiring
should be imputed to oversight and regarded
into the effect produced by the Certificate, it is stated to be
as a defect, it may be of use to give
a brief introduction of the reason of it. The The effect of the certificate
of character is omitted as having in that
instance degenerated into a mere matter of form
and turned into an instrument of taxation without
there being produced in any degree of the
of the Certificate or security expected from it — to add to the a licence duty
this: viz: the adding to the licence duty pay received
received by government a tax of half a guinea
to the use of received and pocketed by the Parish Beadle. The Candidate
for a licence ap makes his application to the
Officer Beadle, gives him that the half guinea (which it seems is
the standing fee), and for this half guinea
the Beadle procures the requisite number of signatures
to the Certificate. The case of a man's
coming into a neighbourhood in which he is
unknown and taking out his licence for a house
in that neighbourhood, is the case fro under favour in of which
the custom appears to have arisen grown up: Going into a new neighbourhood a A man
may be a very honest man, without being known
as such to the any three or four which is the number of reputable Householders
whom whose hands the Act requires to this certificate. The place
a man has lived in, not the place he is about
to live in presents appears <add>itself as the natural is the place to look to for his character.
If this latter place be the only place interested one of the two that
has an interestin receiving in the correctness of the information,
the former place is the only place of the one

two from

Identifier: | JB/150/498/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	56
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	498	Info in main headings field	police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f74
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50719
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