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§ 16
57
Bye-Licences
of

§. 5. [] [Bye licence] [Twenty Days of meeting]
[ 1 ] [ 57 ] Page 37. §. 16 Provided always] p. 8. In the case of Alehouses,
Bye-licences, after having been allowed by a Statute
of the 2d of George the 2d (c. 28) were taken away
by a Statute of the 26th of the same reign [ c. 31. s. 4. ]
"Experience" (it is stated in the general and uninstructive
language employd usual upon these occasions) had given
its testimony against the in disfavour of the
practice. What The particular inconvenience was
I do not recollect the having an it has not fallen in my way to have heard from
any external information: the conjecture presented
by the circumstances of the case is experienced, if I understand the matter right, was this: viz: that at these
the bye-times particular parties used to be formed,
among the Magistrates by persons disposed to patronize
the Candidate, and the motives for opposing
not being so strong as the motives for Supporting the
candidate, licenses were by this means apt to be granted
in cases where they ought to have been refused:
whereas, the by confining the whole quantity of business
of this sort to a particular f one general time
of meeting, a full and unpacked attendance
might be expected would naturally be procured,
and a more impartial attention by that means
given to each case: and whenre a person,
how unworthy soever,
has once got possession
of a licence,
it will be by no
means so easy to
get the renewal of
it refused, even at a
full and unpacked
meeting, as it would
have been to have
got it refused in
the first instance.
But this reason, it is evident,
applies not to the case of the Board, an assembly
composed of the constantly sitting, and (bating accidental
absences) composed of the same persons at all
times; and these, by reason of the extensiveness of their
jurisdiction, not liable very little exposed to the seductions
of private influence. In the Country, among
the local Magistrates, the above reason, if it be the above supposed
true
to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	57
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	503	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
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