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my
is, that all Fines
not only to the Samshu Licence holder, but also to the Revenue, and therefore the remedy I have proposed, in my humble opinion, is that Fines for infringements of the Revenue Laws be partly to the Informer and partly to the Revenue. It is only of this kind that will
Some measure
tender the Police Force useful as regards Revenue Measures.
4. The remarks on the illicit retail
of Samshu by Eating House keepers are also applicable to Spirit-sucking shops and Gambling houses. Without holding out an inducement to informers, be they Policemen or private individuals, will come forward, establishments be placed under the Control of the Police, which they are already.
or
even should these
are
5.
£3
345
With regard to the Tread-wheel, my object in alluding to it was to induce either Government or the body of Justices to render the same productive as well
as a means
of punishment calculated to diminish the number of offenders. As yet nothing has been done, I believe, to render the machine useful in any way, and it has been merely used as a punishment, improductively, and that but seldom.
I think if the vagabond juvenile population were frequently made acquainted with it, this number would materially decrease, a small consideration when we call to mind that the expense of provisioning the prisoners has risen from five or six hundred pounds per annum to about £1200. I am the more induced to draw