JB/150/691/001

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2 + Cd 59
Police Revenue Bill
Observations
IV Regulations

Itinerant Purchasers
of Old
Cloathes &c not
to purchase
metals

[ § 2. [1]Itinerant Purchaser of Second Hand Apparel].p.2.
This reason clause is taken from the Instructions; (the
reason of the incompatibility here created is what I
was not perfectly acquainted with. Is it that these
Old Cloathsmen will be apt to purchase stolen
metals? But why stolen metals rather than
stolen apparel &c. I see no reason for refusing
the an licence proposed to be granted refused, that does not apply
to the licence proposed to be granted. It will
certainly afford a great facility to depredation, if,
among the classes of purchasers proposed to be tolerated,
this of Old Cloathsman, or any other; should
be exempt from the obligation of keeping books: but
if but this that be a sufficient security in the case
of old Cloaths there I see no reason why
they it should not be so in the case of old metals.
All this is thrown out without any positive not for the purpose of expressing an opinion,
but for the mere purpose of obtaining information: and at
the event if the clause does not f do much good,
neither does it seem liable to be productive of any
considerable inconvenience.

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The system of security will, it should seem,
be rather imperfect, if this meanest class of dealers Purchasers
of Second hand goods be not included in the obligation
of keeping open Books. The objection is, that in
that case a great many number, perhaps the greater will [+] [+] for want of learning enough to keep books,
be debarred from the exercise of their trade: the answer
is, the remainder having some education will be the
more trustworthy: and at any rate the species of check
is what appears to be indispensable Among the heads
for a Book kept by this class may be the name and
abode of every person of w at whose house this and of
whom the purchase was made: by this means if a man
suspects any thing to have been conveyd away from his
house unlawfully through such a channel, he will [+]
[+] apply to the Surveyor
of the District
or any adjoining District
who will tell
him whether according
to the Book, if any, such Itinerant
is in the District, will purchase appears to have been much at his house the enquirers house.

Identifier: | JB/150/691/001"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	691	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2 / f59
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50912
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