Excerpt from Extraordinary Decrease in Crime at Luton, and the Action Which Has Produced It Lodging House, Beer House, Public House, or other place where excisable liquors are sold, or place of entertainment or public i resort, and knowingly lodges or harbours thieves or imputed thieves, or knowingly permits them Or suffers them to assemble therein, or allows the deposit of goods therein, having reasonable cause for believing them-to be' stolen, shall then be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not' exceeding ten pounds, and the Justice or Magistrate before whom he may be-brought may require him to enter into his own recognizances, with or without sureties, for keeping the peace and being of good behaviour during twelve months, and any licen e for the sale of excisable liquors or for keeping any' place of public resort which has been granted to the occupier or keeper of any such house or place as aforesaid, shall be forfeited on the first conviction of any offence under this Act. Observe what this clause takes away from convicted criminals, and the position in which it places them. They may not be lodged together in com8 decrease 1n crime AT luton, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.