JB/150/502/001

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Police Bill Inseranda
Observations
III. Licencing

It is attended with no additional trouble or vexation: for
upon the present plan the personal attendance is exacted, though no use
is made of it. The Without qualms or scruples
the law examines every man about the business
of every other, how trifling soever that business: the concern:
- can any reason be given, why it should it have less scruple to examine him about
his own business? Provision is too is here added, where occasion requires,
for taking the exam calling in the testimony of other
witnesses. Without occasion it such testimony does not <add>seem seems not to be much thereby will be
in danger of being called for: it would consume the time of the Board
and there seems nothing and the case does not present any circumstances as calculated to give the members any
interest in promoting the unnecessary consumption
of such time. The examination of a witness
or two to inquire or two for the examin purpose of ascertaining beforehand, whether, in case of his a man's receiving
a licence he more a seems likely to convert his shop
into a nursery of thieves, may seem the examination
of many a witness on prosecutions for
offenses that <add>might would otherwise be <add>come to be instituted, for Offences which, under favour of
such encouragement,
might otherwise
have come to be committed by such thieves. It calls
for none of that sort of evidence which with by a
reason rule, more remarkable for tenderness, than for consistency or wisdom,
is rejected put to silence by the common Law under the name
of self-convicting evidence. If asked - did you,
or did you not, receive such and such goods
from such a person - or did you, or did you not,
know the goods to have been stolen, or the bringer
to be a thief. ? - silence will then as now be the
resource of the examinant, and so long as he thus keeps keeping silence,
he can not in such examination be convicted in such examination of
felony for the receiving of those goods. But it will
rest with the Board or with the Country Magistrates
(and why should it not?) to judge whether, after refusing to ask
ask such questions,
the man be a fit person
to be intrusted with
a licence for the purchasing
of such goods.

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Identifier: | JB/150/502/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	502	Info in main headings field	police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / f78
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50723
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