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Observations
VI Miscellaneous
§. 45
Police Gazette

103 confirmed

to the other branch, it must indeed be confessed, thus
among Among the articles of theproposed to be inserted gratis in the
Police Gazette are some that at present pay a
Stamp duty in the shape of advertisements: and that
thus much of the amount of that duty would it
must be confessedaccordingly be to be sacrificed. But surely there
can-not be a sacrifice more th demand for which
is of a more urgent nature. To impose a duty,
and a duty which in a multitude of cases must
operate as a prohibition, upon a branch of information necessary
to the execution of penal justice is to nip justice
in the bud. To offer immense rewards for
information of this kind with one hand, while for
the gain of a few shillings, to sit those who would a afford
it, and be glad to afford it, without reward,
are driven away with the other, would be is an inconsistency
not less preposterous in a financial point of with a view to RevenueFinance, than
with a view to Police.

At present, the demand for information itself is thus taxed,

and by being taxed prohibited, and prevented from appearing in all instances
the demandbeing given appearing for information of this as well as of
every other nature: but taxingpreventing the appearance of the demand for information
is preventing the appearance of the information
itself. By preventing a man whose goods
have been stolen from making it universally known that they have been
stolen, and that such an one is suspected of being the thief, the tax prevents him from hearing where the goods may be found again, or where the thief may be apprehended.

In some instances it may be matter of consideration,
how to draw the line, between such information
or enquiry as comes under the reason in favour
of the exemption, and such as does not. Take For example
Notice of, that is, Enquiry after, things lost: (matter for one advertisement:) - information of things
found: (matter for another advertisement: where the loss is observed, it may not be
known or so much as open to conjecture, whether
the loss has or has not for its cause criminal depradation for its
cause. In such such case, any one of a variety of various expedients that

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	103 continued
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	592	Info in main headings field	police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / f168
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50813
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