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So much for fines imposed and forfeitures declared by Magistrates
sitting singly or in Petty Sessions: and
the productiveness and efficiency of fines imposed and forfeitures declared
in the Courts of General or Quarter Sessions does not
appear to stand on a much better footing - "it
"being according to the present practice, a period of
"two years or thereabouts after such Sessions fines
"and forfeitures are lost by the death, removal, or
"insolvency of the parties. How it has happened
"that the summons of the Green Wax has not com-
"-prehended the Sessions Fines and Forfeitures, as
"well as the others, we are not able to learn; but
"we do not find that they have been included in that
"process within the memory of any Officer now living." ibid. p. 214,
p. 214.

Here then we see a branch of the Revenue
killed by by mere old age, having become rotten at
the core. This would of itself be no such great matter:
the misfortune is that a branch of justice,
having been grafted on this branch of the revenue, is
become rotten along with it. What becomes of the
money levied or that should be levied by Magistrates
out of Sessions, it is at present impossible to know: the best
thing that can happen in any instance is, that the
Magistrate shoud should have received it, and put
it into his own pocket: punishment is thus inflicted
where it is due: and whether one
person eats the money
or another, makes
little difference in
the suffering of the
man who is made
to deprive himself of
it for his punishment
is deprived of it: -
but that the worst that can happen, and thing most to be feared
the worst thing that seems likely to happen oftenest, is, that the Magistrate, not knowi seeing any
body to hand it over to, and fearing or disdaining
to put it into his own pocket, should forbear to take
it, because he does not know what to do with it.

Identifier: | JB/150/626/001"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	626	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 / f197
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50847
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