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Police Revenue Bill

Observations
IV. Regulations
§. 28
78
Penalty for giving
a false account &c
necessary

§. 28 [ 1 ] [ Forfeit and pay ] p. 9 §. 28 [ 2 ] [ 78 ] <add>Page 57. Person knowingly . . . giving any false account of himself
shall forfeit
]

§. 6. The effect of s If no penalty be annexed to inflicted on
the act of giving a person giving a false information account of himself,
the account given by a dishonest vendor will
be of course a false one; by which means the
only class of persons
against whom the
provision is levelled
will escape elude the force of
it:

and if means such as
these the above be not taken for fixing upon such person
the account he gives of himself, it will be difficult
to convict a man under this clause: but by
the he means of such the signature here proposed, nothing
can be more easy.

§. 28
79
Obligation to detain
a suspicious Vendor
by Precedent

It would with a view to Police be a very beneficial law
if the bare act of changing a man's changing his name, without proper authority,
were made penal:
since any such change
can not have been scarely be ever
directed to any other
than a bad purpose;
Giving a false an answer
as in any respect
false to the inquiry
prescribed by any of the
heads which have respect to
the party's name
would be an instance
of such an offense,
as far as persons
thus circumstanced
are concerned. A
regulation extending
to all persons in
all circumstances,
would be highly useful,
it is conceived and
perfectly unexceptionable,
but would add
to the bulk and break
the unity of the present
Bill.

§. 28 P. [ 62 ] [ 75 ] Page 57. [ Suffer] p. 9. him to depart ] Precedent - By the stolen Metal
Act (29 G. 3. c 30. §. 4.) "if it should appear . . . . to the upon
sale " that there was reasonable cause to suspect such Lead
"&c to be unlawfully come by and that the person . . .
"to whom such Lead &c was so brought or offered, did
"not (having it in his power to do so) apprehend and
"secure and carry before a Justice of the Peace as
"aforesaid, the person . . . . who so brought or offered the
"same, then . . . . then the person . . . . to whom such
"Lead &c was so brought or offered shall be . . . . . ad-
"judged guilty of a misdemeanour." It The power
of apprehending &c is a less power and the obligation
a lighter obligation where the offense consists
It is easier
To judge whether a man has refused
to give answers to questions so simple as those which
concern his name, abode, &c than is a task much easier, than to judge whether the goods he offers
to sale were or were not "unlawfully come by": the power
of arresting in such case the person is therefore less strong, and the
obligation less burthensome in the former present case than in
the latter. that in which it has already received the
sanction of Parliament.


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Identifier: | JB/150/528/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

78-79

Box

150

Main Headings

police bill

Folio number

528

Info in main headings field

police revenue bill

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

b16 / f104

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

admiral pavel chichagov

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

50749

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