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
6 & 7 Will. and 2. For apprehending, and prosecuting
Mary, c. 17; to conviction every person who
and 15 & 16 shall have counterfeited, clipped, washed,[112]
Geo. II. c. 28. filed, or diminished the current
coin; or who shall gild silver to make
it pass as gold, or copper, as silver,--or
who shall utter false money, (being
the third offence) or after being once
convicted of being a common utterer,
&c. a reward of 40
3. For apprehending, and prosecuting
to conviction, every person counterfeiting
copper money, a reward of 10
10 and 11 Will. 4. For apprehending, and prosecuting
III. c. 23. to conviction, every person privately
stealing to the value of 5_s._ from any
_shop_, _warehouse_, or _stable_, a Tyburn
ticket,[113] average value, about 20
10 & 11 Will. 5. For apprehending, and prosecuting
III. c. 23. to conviction, every person charged
5 Ann. c. 32. with a burglary, a reward of 40_l._ (to
the apprehender, or if killed, to his
executors) in money, and a Tyburn
ticket, 20_l._ 60
6. For apprehending, and prosecuting
to conviction, every person charged
with house-breaking in the day-time,
40_l._ in money, and a Tyburn ticket 60
7. For apprehending, and prosecuting
to conviction, any person charged
with horse-stealing, a Tyburn Ticket 20
6 Geo. I. 8. For apprehending, and prosecuting
c. 23. with effect, a person charged with
the offence of compounding a felony,
by taking money to help a person to
stolen goods, without prosecuting and
giving evidence against the felon 40
14 Geo. II. 9. For apprehending, and prosecuting
c. 6. with effect, a person charged with
15 Geo. II. stealing, or killing to steal, any sheep,
c. 34. lamb, bull, cow, ox, steer, bullock,
heifer, or calf 10
16 Geo. II. 10. For apprehending, and prosecuting
c. 15. with effect, persons returning from
8 Geo. III. transportation 20
c. 15.
[Footnote 112: In consequence of some doubts which have been started
relative to washed money, the reward in this case is not paid; it is
confined entirely to the conviction of _Coiners_.]
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