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SECT. VI. Municipal Law.

After what we have seen we need not wonder at
what follows. "It may be notified by universal
"tradition and long practise, which supposes a previous
"publication, and is the case of the Common "Law of England. This Common Law of England
then is suffrag "notified" sufficiently, the "tradition"
' of it as "universal" as he would wish it.
If he means this, One may believe him. In the mean time who
is there that knows it? nobody, but a few
Lawyers. It is well if they do. But whether
it is made known in any more effective manner,
is to him "matter of great indifference".
This may be: tho' to a Lawyer it is charity to suppose
it: but to the people, that it is not bette notified
is a "matter of great" and well-merited complaint.
"When a Law is in the usual manner
notified or prescribed" (and any thing manner that is
the usual or pretended usual manner will serve
him) "it is then the subject's business to be thoroughly
acquainted therewith": I should first have
chosen to say, that it is the Legislator's business
to do every thing that can be done to make
him so. Now there is that to be might be done that which
would make him so. But of this hereafter
[and at large.] Meantime ere to we make an
attempt we may prove indulge a wish: and would to God
let me say the state of things mentioned printed by our
Author in another place,† † p.53 were as real as it
is possible, and "that every man might know

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