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Disapproved by Mr Colquhoun
Police Bill

[ ] Page * 50 §. 25. [ Limit the Walk or Walks ]

Without a power of this sort, the power of
granting or withholding the licence might afford
but little security against the practices of the
dishonest part of the trade: after mak a purchase
made of stolen goods, a man could march off
to whatever distance have no more to do than to
shift his operations to some by changing his
walk and continuing the same practices in a part
of the country where he was unknown a man might
at any time convey himself out of the reach of
Justice. Nor would this dereliction of one accustomed
walk be any such sacrifice as that of one accustomed
shop. In the case of a shop the custom depends partly
partly upon the
situation of the shop,
partly upon habits of personal
acquaintance as between
the shop-keeper and
his customers. In
the present case fixt situation
is out of the
question: nor is
the custom supposed
to depend much
if any thing
upon personal
acquaintance,
any more than
in the case of
ordinary Pedlars.

In the case of ordinary Pedlars, i:e: walking
vendors of new goods, the licence when is at present granted
in every instance by the Office sitting in
London, and the liberty granted by it extends
over all England, Town and Country included.
But in that case the danger mischief hereby intended to
be guarded against has no place. For the purpose
here in question a limitation in regard to place
seems as necessary in the instance of walking purchasers, as the fixation of a place
in the instance of shop-keeping purchasers. The
difference is that in the one case the exercise
of the trade can requires to be confined only within
a boundary line, in the other it requires to be limited
to a fixed point.

Unless the walk of each Walking purchaser
has some limits, forged licences will be very little
exposed to detection. By what means is the hand
of a Surveyor or set of Justices in Carlisle Magistrates in Cumberland to be
known to a Surveyor or Magistrate in Cornwall? A
stamp were that to be emp expedient to be employ'd,
would

would as certainly be an additional
check: but a
stamp is an invariable
mark and for
the securing a
traffic of this sort
cases may be conceived
in which it would be
worth while to counterfeit
it. It might
in this way be worth the while of a dishonest wholesale Purchaser of

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Identifier: | JB/150/700/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	24*
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	700	Info in main headings field	police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	[[notes_public::"not now. disapproviding[?] mr colquhoun" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	50921
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