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Police Revenue Bill

Observations
IV. Regulations
§. 25
77
Heads, the
under which can
not so well be
settled by Parliament,
as by the
Board

§. 27: [ 3 ] [ 77 ] - Page 52. Inscripti [ Book keeping ] [ manner of his coming by the
article ] p. 52. This is one of these heads, which, to
be applied to practice, would require a multitude
of subdivisions and explanations, such as might be
framed to a very good purpose by a permanent Board, especially
with the help of experience, but which if
sufficiently precise and ample for the purpose, would run into a
length of minute detail far too minute for an Act
of Parliament. A set string of questions would require to be framed,
branching out into other questions corresponding
to the several variations of which the answers to the
first set of string of questions would be susceptible: a
part, and but a part, of the business would be, the framing a compleat
list of the several events to admitted by the law in the character of efficient causes of title to things in
with reference to the several sorts species of things in question. A question that here
occurrs is - why then admitt so complex a head of inquiry?
- The answer is - that in point of utility it is really necessary,
and in point of precedent, it is a head of
inquiry that has been prescribed in the Statute Book on a variety of occasions.
The occasion of taking an examinations under
this head occurrs frequently to Magistrates, in whose
superiority of intelligence may be supposed capable of
conducting them through the business without instructions
from any other quarter. But where the person by whom
the examination is to be taken is a low Shop-keeper,
unless he has some such instructions for his guidance,
he will frequently be oftentimes be really puzzled and perplexed by the
answers he receives, or if he be dishonest, he will still
more frequently pretend to be so, if dishonest. The thing needful to
be

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Identifier: | JB/150/526/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	77
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	526	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b9 / f102
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50747
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