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A collateral advantage arising out of this same
source would be the restoring the competency legal audibility of
the only class of persons witnesses persons who in general are likely
to be in the way have any evidence to give: and
thereby doing away one of the most prolific of those
causes of artificial inefficiency which are but too abundant
in the system of judicial procedure. On this subject
see above Note [ ] to § [ ].

A second resource of a similar nature might
be the giving to the Police Fund, what is called the King's
share, of all forfeitures levied under penal Statutes, under
which the whole or
any part of the forfeiture
sum forfeited
is given to the King,
or at least of all forfeitures
which being
given to the King,
are levied, under
statutes of that description
made leviable
by Justices
of the Peace. What
becomes of these forfeitures
at present
will be mentioned
presently.

A further third resource might be, the giving to Justices
of the Peace the power of levying the penalty of
to the extent of a certain amount (say £ 20, or up to £ 50)
in the case of every recognizance the penal
sum not exceeding a certain amount taken before
Justices of the Peace: a power which it is apprehended
might just as well be executed b executed
by those Magistrates as the power of levying a
penalty to the same amount arising issuing in a more
direct way out of the force letter tenor of the law: and
the money drawn from this source also might
be made payable to the Police Fund. By this
means the proper intended energy and use might be restored to an
instrument which at present is in one instance perhaps out
of a hundred, an engine of ruin and oppression instrument of ruin to the individual,
and in the ninety nine others a dead letter.
On this subject see further above in Note [ ] to §. [ ]
But such an this arrangement would require an adequate indemnification
to be received a to be made out of the same Fund, for
comprising an adequate indemnification for whatever
emoluments it may at present be derived
by any Officers from this at present inconsiderable source.

Identifier: | JB/150/624/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	624	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b3 / f195
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50845
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