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With respect to the relation which the Laws may bear to any
Article of use to man, the dealings in it are either 1st Prohibited
2d Regulated or 3dly left free.
1st. Prohibited Introduction) Production ( Matters
which is by —— —— ——) & this in (
(Natural By (Culture
(Artifical By (Extraction B B as of Platina in Spanish
America
(Fabrication x x — as Slitting Mills in
the English Plantations
23.G.2.c.29.§§.9.
2.dlyProhibited Occupation)
or Possession + )
3.dly Prohibited or Carriage or )
Conveyance. )
4.thly Prohibited Exposal to Sale )
5.thly Prohibited Sale )
6.thly Prohibited Purchase + )
7.thly Prohibited Exportation)
Prohibition or Regulation
may attach upon all these
dealings in relation to any
article, or upon some only. alone
8.thly Prohibited Consumption (immediately useful is Fruition by enjoyment
( which in things mediately
( or instrumentally useful by Using
Note
+ The dealings marked
thus + being such as
are transmitable by
the Subjects in general,
& not merely in virtue
of their embracing
any particular occupation
the regulations concerning
them should be
collected into a general Code
Any of these dealings or operations may be regulated;
and this in a certain manner, & to a certain end.
This end may be either 1st The raising a revenue, or 2d —
The Prosperity of the Traffic in that article in question —
3d The Discouragement of the Traffic in that article —
and this either 1st absolutely || || as in the instance
of Gin. or 2dly relatively to other Articles
These ends may subsist as well separately, as any of them
in conjunction.
The above are the grand Stages in the History or progress
of articles of Property, from Production to Consumption
to be found & are common in that of every Article of —
Property, as such: others of less note & universality of extent
may subsist in the instance of different articles —
according to the particular nature of those articles.
Thus in the instance of Coals, from this circumstance
of the bulk of that commodity, the operations of Measuring
& delivering made the object of regulation.
The principal offence is that of buying it is then that
a sum of money takes one course which it is in the Will
of the Legislate should take another to determine.
Qu. at which of these Stages Mischief commences according
to the several powers experienced by the Law over the several
articles & it's several ends in exercising them.
This is in order to settle which is the principal offence,
& which the Accessories.
CLASSIFICAT. Offences Anti-Oeconomical.
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