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 / [Patrick Colquhoun].

  • Patrick Colquhoun
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 / [Patrick Colquhoun]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r INDEX. Page 99,100 37 414,n. 411,12 10 <5,7 107 ow appointed and paid 411,12,41,7»«. Their general unfitness - 412,13 The abuses -which arise from this source ib. The number m the Metropolis - 414 Rewards proposed to excite vigilance 415,1(> Watchmakers to be registered - - 108 Water and Waterworks - - 5<J5 Watermen on the Thames, Act 34 Geo. III. regulating their Fares, &c. - - 5£K> West India Produce pilfered in a year ~ - 240,1, n. Westminster, The Acts of Parliament relative to its Police 411, 7j. 412,71. Women and Children of late years reg»arly frequeht the Taprooms of Public Houses, a proof of the Corruption of Morals 310—314 Writs. An extraordinary Statement of the astonishing expence of Small Law-suits, exemplified by an authentic Table of the number of Writs issued in Middlesex in the course of a year 587 The subject further explained - 585,8 W. H’ar, The means of employing Criminals Civil Waps seldom waged from considerations of Virfue or the security of Liberty Watch-houses,Metropolis Watching the Metropolis, the Laws relating thereto Watchmen am} Patroles to be placed under the control of the Police Their miserable Establishment from 8fd. to 2s. a night FINIS. itL Fruited by Bye and Law, St. John’s Square,
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