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A

TREATISE

ON THE

COMMERCE AND POLICE

OF THE

RIVER THAMES:

CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE

TRADE OF THE PORT OF LONDON;

And suggesting Means for preventing the Depredations thereon, by a Legislative System of RIVER POLICE.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE VARIOUS MAGISTRATES AND CORPORATIONS

EXERCISING JURISDICTION ON THE RIVER;

AND A GENERAL VIEW OF

THE PENAL AND REMEDIAL STATUTES
CONNECTED WITH THE SUBJECT,

BY P. COLQUHOUN, LL. D.

Oculos ad Legislatores nos convertere oportet, ut sanciant leges in hoc opere commendatas. Quæ unica via est confirmandi simul et stabiliendi proposito quo criminibus numerosis et enormibus, suâque naturâ societati nocivis eccurratur. Regis annui reditus et merces omnigenæ muniantur adversus fraudem et deprædationes; malaque ingentia arceantur, quæ à longo tempore maximum commercio et Tamesis navigationi afferunt detrimentum,

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOSEPH MAWMAN, IN THE POULTRY,
SUCCESSOR TO MR. DILLY.

MDCCC.

[H. Baldwin and Son, Printers, New Bridge-street.

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