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Licence Inspections
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William Howitt wrote this about licence inspections in 1855.

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Howitt, William, Land, labor and gold: or two years in Victoria, with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1855. Details

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…The system of hunting up licences was styled ‘Man hunting’, and the foot-police ‘Man-catchers’ and ‘Bloodhounds’. It was a system that raised the indignation of high-spirited freeborn men, and excited the universal hatred of the people, as a cold-blooded, un-English, un-Christian despotism.

Created: 24 August 2006