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Police Bill Observations

V. Penalties &c
§9 §.37 continued
89 continued
Observations

§9 [3] [Not exceeding seven years] p.16. If it were
not for the formidable sound of the word felony, it
might be better to make it felony at once (meaning
single felony) on account of the advantages attending
the mesne process in case of felony in comparison
of that in case of a misdemeanours: advantages too
numerous and various to be here repeated, and which
could not all of them be extended to the misdemeanour created by this Act be given in detail (though some of them
are) in this Act, without a detail too minute
and particular and voluminous to be endured. Letting
aside these advantages the only very material difference between the
effect of a conviction as for of felony and the conviction as for
a transportable offence, as to without felony , as here,
consists in the swaping forfeiture which attaches to felony,
but which is so rarely eluded, where there is property
to render it worth while, that the difference in
point of terror may be reckoned as nothing.

By the g G.2.c.35.§.28, not only "wounding or
"beating", but "forcibly hindering, opposing or obstructing" an
"Officer of the Excise or Customs or Excise." on board a
Ship ..or boat within the limits of any of the Ports," is
made punishable by transportation (without felony) as
above. This is without felony: but by §.10. of the same
Act, persons assembling to the "with oppressive arms or weapons
. . "in order to be aiding and assisting in the clandestine
"running, landing, or carrying away prohibited" or
"uncustomed goods" are or " to rescue the same after seizures"
and or "to watch for proper opportunities for that purpose,"
if, "assembled to the number of three or more" ..."in any
"town or village adjacent to the sea", are to be "adjudged
"guilty of felony" as well as transported for seven years
.

Identifier: | JB/150/543/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	89 continued
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	543	Info in main headings field	police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / f119
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50764
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