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
IV. To grant Licences also in like manner to other Traders,
which are already under some degree of Legislative
regulations; (but which require a more efficient Control),
provided it shall be thought expedient by the Legislature to
transfer these branches to the proposed Board, as requiring
in a particular degree the superintendance of the Policy
System, viz.
1st. Pawnbrokers in Town and Country.
2d. Persons keeping Slaughtering-houses for Horses, and
other Animals, not for the food of Man.
3d. Dealers in Horses, and persons hiring, keeping at
Livery, and transferring Horses from hand to hand, with a
view to establish a check against Highway Robberies, and to
defeat those subtle tricks which prevail in the Sale of
Horses.
And also to collect the Licence and other Duties, (which
might, in respect to the transfer of Horses, be rendered
extremely productive without being felt as a burden), and to
inspect the conduct of these classes with a view to the
prevention of Frauds, and other offences.
V. To grant Licences in like manner to all persons (except
those employed in his Majesty's Mints), who shall erect or
set up any cutting Engine for cutting round Blanks by the
force of a Screw; or any Stamping Press, Fly, Rolling Mill,
or other instrument for Stamping, flatting, or marking
Metals, or Bank Notes; or which, with the assistance of any
Matrix, Stamp, Die, or Plate, will stamp Coins or Notes--so
as to prevent the enormous evils constantly experienced by
the Coinage of Base Money, and the counterfeiting of Bank
Notes:--A System whereby the criminal part of ingenious
Artists could be kept under the immediate view of the
Police, is so obvious in a Commercial Country, as to require
no elucidation. And the measure is the more desirable, as
the reputable part of the Artists and Manufacturers who have
occasion to keep Presses for innocent and useful purposes,
have no objection to such regulations.[175]
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