Note 171 — CHAP. XVIII.

The amount of the general expence of the Criminal Police of the Kingdom as stated by the Committee on Finance in their 28th Report is as follows:

1st. The annual average of the total expence of the Seven Public Offices in the Metropolis, from the institution in August 1792 to the end of the year 1797, being a period of 5½ years£.18,281186

2d. The total expence of the Office at Bow-street, in the year 1797, including remunerations to the Magistrates in lieu of fees, perquisites, and special services, and the expence of the patrole of 68 persons7,90177

Total expence for the Metropolis26,18361

3d. The money paid to the several Sheriffs for the conviction of Felons in 17979,65000

4th. The expence of maintaining Convicts on board the Hulks, (exclusive of 415 under Sentence of Transportation in the different gaols), amounted in 1797 to£.32,08000

5th. The expences incurred in the employment of Convicts by the Navy and Ordnance Boards, probably amounting to not less than from 10l. to 20l. per Man per annum, were by computation1,4981410¼

6th. The annual average of cloathing, victualling, and transporting Convicts, and of the Civil, Military, and Marine Departments of New South Wales, and Norfolk Island, from 1786 to 179786,4571211½

120,03679¾

155,8691310¾

To which add the farther sums annually charged on the County Rates, or incurred in places having peculiar Jurisdiction in England50,00000

Borne by the Sheriffs in England10,0000060,00000

Total for all England 215,8691310¾