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The portion of Revenue and the Justice justice derivable from
(What is more of much more) of justice depending for its existence
upon Recognizances, requires somebody to watch - not
only when the money leviable on this score is
levied - but when the time is come when it ought
to be levied: - that is when it is that any such
event happens to take place upon the taking of that upon its taking
place by the happening of which the forfeiture of
the Recognizance is incurred. Recognizances being
of different natures,
that is taken for
very different purposes,
would require
to be classed in this
view: a task to
be executed by or
for the Board,
and which may if
time permits may
perhaps be executed
and subjoined
to these Notes.
Furnished with
the list of Recognizances taken within his district,
and invited by a competent share in the penalty,
the Police Surveyor of the District would be an effectual
Watchman for this purpose. This would be
among the fruits of the proposed system of Returns

The Book-keeping requisite for them is at
any rate not without example. In the London
Police Offices accounts are can not but be kept of the monies
levied on this score, and since these monies go in part
of the requisite are applied to be employd, as far as they go, in
defraying the expense of those offices. Accounts are
by that means kept of the proceedings had, and
documents issued in those several offices, so far
at least as is necessary for the purpose of indicating
the source from which each sum has been
derived. In one of these offices a general account
is - or at least was - kept of all proceedings: on a table in which
consequently must have been included a mention in some way
form under heads. in a word a note of each
or other of each document belonging to the set of documents proposed
to be transmitted either in terminis or in abstract by the proposed Returns. This
instance example serves at least to shew what may be done: and
what has been done spontaneously in the instance of any
one Magistrate, may not unreasonably be expected to be
done when made matter of obligation,
and by the means
by of
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Identifier: | JB/150/627/001"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	627	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b6 / f198
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50848
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