JB/150/536/001

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Police Revenue Bill Observations
IV Regulation
§ 3 f

§ 7. [ 4. Powers for a which
the several sets of articles particularly exposed
to depredation shall remain in the hands of
a for the purpose of being definitive
identified in case of their having been improperly
obtained. — The principle is capable of being
turned to good account: but the application of it properly of its
must depend upon the proportion between
the time allotted and the particular of
each article. Unless a considerable latitude, and
[great] facility of variation be allowed the provision
made in this behalf will be continually apt to
be either inefficient or vexatious or both together as one.

A consideration that leads me to doubt whether a
provision to any such effect as this would continue
for any considerable length of time to retain its efficacy, is that
of the extreme fusibility of both these metals. Let the
certain proportion of three parts of lead to one of
tin to be indicative, for example, of an Ale-house
Pot. Lead and Tin are both fusible with so small
a degree of heat when separate (and with a still smaller
when in mixture) and Lead at least so cheap
and so easily procurable (especially in the way of depredation by cutting off
pieces of leaden roofs or pipes in water pipes or roofs in the night time)
that by so simple an operation as the throwing in a piece of lead into the
ladle or fire-shovel in which the pewter was
melted, the indication might be at any time destroyed,
at any time and by any body. If at present,
the band of thieves are not possessed of so simple an
pre article of knowledge, it is because [+] [+] under the existing order of things there is no demand for it: but under the proposed order of things, necessity it is presumed would not be long in teaching it them now that there
is no such obligation existing as that which here proposed

Identifier: | JB/150/536/001"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	536	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d21 / f112
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50757
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