Subordinate Officers, both in the Town and Country Districts, and to be careful that those who were entrusted with the collection of the Licence Duties gave proper Security; and that in their conduct, in Surveying and Watching the Movements of the different Dealers, they manifested the greatest degree of vigilance, prudence, and discretion-Above all, that they were regular in their Payments, and remittances, so as not to incur the penalties inflicted by the proposed Act on defaulters.

VIII. To correspond with the Select Magistrates in every District in the Kingdom, and not only to receive from them useful information, relative to offences which have been committed, and all other matters within the scope of the Functions of these Select Magistrates; but also to give them their advise and assistance in every case where it is found necessary, for the purpose of the preservation of peace and good order, and the due administration of the Laws; and particularly as it may apply to

+ The most œconomical mode would, apparently, be to consolidate in one person the office of Constable and Collector of Licence Duties in the respective Districts: having it understood that the poundage received on the money paid to the Board, should not only be considered as a remuneration for the Collection, but also as a reward for occasional Services in the general Police Department. By such an arrangement, a chain of Select and reputable Officers may be established all over the Country, without being felt as a burden of any kind on the Community; while those Services under the general arrangements of the Board, could not fail to be productive of infinite benefits in the well-ordering of Society.

those

those Select Magistrates who reside near the SeaCoasts of the Kingdom, that in all cases of Shipwreck, measures may be pursued, and the laws enforced, to prevent those horrid barbarities, pillage and spoliation, which have, to the disgrace of civilized Society, prevailed on such melancholy occasions.*

IX. To make arrangements with the Select Magistrates in the Country, relative to the due execution of the proposed General Police Act, with respect to the Control over the persons Licenced, and all other Duties which may be required under such a Legislative System.

X. To obtain accurate Information, by means of regular returns from Clerks of Assize, Clerks of the Peace, Keepers of Prisons, Houses of Correction, Penitentiary Houses, and other places of Confinement; and to have constantly in view the state of delinquency in the Metropolis, and in every part of the country; preserving such accounts in registers for the purpose of reference, as occasions might arise to render them useful to public Justice.-To assist the acting Magistrates in Town and Country by conveying all useful information applicable to their local situa

The Registers of our Courts of Record, and other well-attested accounts have developed scenes of unfeeling Cruelty and Rapacity, in cases of Shipwrecks, which would have disgraced the rudest and most ferocious Savages, and would lead a Stranger to suppose that we have no Laws for the prevention of such outrages.

tions, respecting the commission of crimes, and the detection of offendèrs, and which might tend to the prevention of disorders, or offences meditated against the Law's.

XI. To watch the proceedings of the herds of criminal delinquents who generally leave Town every year in the month of March, after the drawing of the English Lottery, for the purpose of attending fairs, races, and other places of amusement and dissipation in the country, carrying with them quantities of base Money and EO Tables, with a view to commit frauds on the unwary-And to give notice to the Select local Magistrates, that they and their officers may be apon their guard in defeating the nefarious designs of these miscreants, who are often disguised as farmers and labourers, the better to enable them to effect their purposes, by cheating and stealing, particularly horses, to the great loss and injury of the country.

XII. It is recommended by the Select Committee

of the House of Commons, that the Commissioners of this Central Board should have it in their power to distribute rewards to Constables or others for meritorious services, through the medium of the Magistrates of Police, and to use such other means as should best promote the ends of Justice, and the general utility of the Institution to the commnnity.

XIII. Under the direction of the principal Secretary

of State for the Home Department, these Com

missioners

missioners should avail themselves of the knowledge their situation would afford them of the degree of depravity and danger attached to the character of the different convicts; to select such as they thought proper objects for transportation to New South Wales; and to follow any other instructions they may receive for œconomizing this branch of the criminal Police of the nation, so as, if possible, to reduce the annual expence.

XIV. These Commissioners being authorized by the Lords of the Treasury, might take under their management all matters relative to the Lottery; not only with a view to a more œconomical mode of drawing the same, but also for the purpose of rendering the Revenue productive to the State, without the evil consequences which at present arise from it to the morals of the lower orders of the people, and the distresses and miseries to which its fascinating delusions subject them.

XV. It would be the duty of the Board, availing

itself of the practical knowledge which may be obtained by means of a System of general superintendance in the Police Department, to attend closely to the operation of the whole of the present code of penal Laws, with respect to its efficacy and utility; and where imperfections are discovered, to suggest from time to time such improvements as may appear useful and beneficial to the Police, and to the Revenue.

XVI. The Select Committee in their Report recom

mend, that the proposed Board should have power

"to

"to make Bye-Laws for the regulation of such "minor objects of Police as relate to the objects "of their superintendence, and to the control of "all Coaches, Chairs, Carts, Barrows, and the "conduct of all Coachmen and Chairmen, Carters, &c. and the removal and prevention of all

annoyances, and the correction of all of "fences against the cleanliness and quiet, and the "free passages of the streets of the Metropolis, in "like manner as is now possessed by the Com"missioners of Hackney Coaches, and subject to "the approbation of the Superior Judges." XVII. To superintend the general receipts and dis

bursements of the Establishment, and to report the - same quarterly to the Treasury, and to the principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart

ment.

XVIII. To receive and execute the instructions of the Treasury in all matters respecting Finance and Revenue'; and the instructions and directions of His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department in all matters of Police.

XIX. To establish a more correct System through the medium of the Select Magistrates, whereby the Laws for the prevention and punishment of offences may be more effectually and universally carried into execution, and not in many instances remain a dead letter, as at present, to the great injury of the community; or be partially carried into effect in particular parts of the country, against