A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
1st. That instead of selling those stores upon the spot
where the criminal connections are formed, the Naval
articles shall be made up in assorted lots suitable to the
_London, Bristol, Liverpool, Whitehaven, Glasgow, Newcastle,
and Hull_ Markets. That a responsible Agent should be
appointed to conduct the sales at each of these
_Ports_.--That they shall be men of the first respectability
in the commercial line, who can give ample security for
their fidelity in the execution of the trust reposed in
them.--That they shall receive the stores at the yards or
repositories where they are made up, and convey them to
their respective Warehouses at their own expence: on having
an allowance of _6 per Cent. for Freight-charges,
Warehouse-rent, Insurance_ against _Sea-risk and Fire_, and
all other expences; _and 4 per Cent. for commission on the
amount of the Sales_.
That the said stores shall not on any pretence be sold to dealers, but
only to the _actual consumers_, or Rope Spinners to convert into small
cordage; _nor shall any certificate be granted to purchasers on any
pretence whatsoever_.
That accounts of sales shall be furnished monthly, and such sales
shall be accompanied by _a full remittance for the amount_, it being
always understood that no credit is to be allowed.
That at the end of each year, an inventory shall be transmitted on a
specific day to be fixed, of the whole stores on hand, and a general
account current shall be then furnished; in which shall be exhibited,
agreeable to a form to be prescribed, a complete view of the whole
transactions which have occurred during the preceding year, with a
full remittance for the balance due on the said account.
2d. That the _Metalic Stores_ which are deemed unserviceable
shall be deposited in a commodious Magazine in London, under
the charge of a responsible Agent, competent to such a
trust.--That it shall be his duty to employ proper
Artificers to convert all that are capable of being
converted into serviceable Stores, and when so renovated, to
be returned to Deptford Yard.--And such Metalic Stores as
are incapable of being converted into useful purposes at a
moderate expence, so as clearly to demonstrate a saving to
Government, shall be disposed of to founders and others, at
the best price that can be obtained.
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