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NOTORIETY R.S. 2 Particular Codes.
1) Laws relating to Travelling in general at every Turnpike House, and every room of entertainment
in every House of entertainment might not they be printed on Linen so as to line the top of Hired carriages This in Hackney Coaches might be furnished with a Table of the Rates. At every flight of Stairs The rates of Watermen from that other stairs to a given flight of Stairs to every other. on a painted Board.
Laws relative to the Police of Streets to be pasted against the buildings at certain
Stations to be assigned by the Magistracy of the Place.. N.B. In great Letters at the top of
all these Tables on either side, or above or below the Kings Arms - "Whoso removes erases or defaces, suffers" — then the penalty in smaller.
3) Laws relative to the internal Oeconomy of Houses to be stuck up in Houses — as for instance
the Stat. of Qu. Ann to prevent the carelessness of servants in Incorporated into the late Act 12 G.3 ch. 7.a & last. — and 8 A 9 § 18.
Prohibiting the making of Candles burning of or fat other than Oil made of Fish within G. Britain — as also the making
of Candles without compounding or paying Excise —
The With this there is no occasion for the memory to be burthened-
Laws relative to Gaming, in every Place which in which is the Scene destined to any particular Game - as Tennis Courts
Billiard Tables &c — And in every room in every House licensed for public entertainment.
2) If there be anyone to whom these Ideas have communicated a share ray portion of that pleasing delirium frenzy of hope which accompanied attends
their connection let him know that to these & every other expedient for giving to the Laws that efficacy which things
ought to & may might receive, which they might, which they ought, & which by God's grace seconded by the efforts of those to whom their Country's good is at heart dear they shall receive, the pantological & never ending merciless <add>wordiness of the old</add> stile of Legislative composition whole if continues <add>is a </add>
Bar.
1) The general obedience which the clause in the Stat. G. c. Persons having a license
to sell wine by to have that word delineated over their doors, is no bad earnest of the execution of
this more plan of a more extended plan of notification. oedematous & bloated figure, the false mock [evidence] of strength, but the real hider of internal weakness which the People nauseate.
As a further means of ensuring it, the establishment of might circuits of visitation might be established to be performed by (Justices
of the Peace of who should give a regular account <add>thereof of their proceedings therein</add> to the Justice of Assize.
3)[For the purpose however of distinguishing them In order to distinguish these Tables of the Laws from the variety of Rubbish that is apt to occupy
such similar Stations as have been mentioned, to the eye especially of such as cannot read, some standing Symbol
might be adopted to be placed at the head of the Page, which should distinguish be appropriated to them exclusively to all circumstances of this purpose; private being prohibited under a penalty for
a view of the House of P an engraved Representation of the King Sovereign in Parliament in the attitude of touching performing
with his Sceptre ceremony on on the Bills presented to him which notifies his Assent.]
4) But one of the most signal all the advantages of printing Laws in the Tabular form one of the
most signal [is that] which will manifest itself at the times on those occasions when they may come before <add>to be taken in</add>
the Legislation for Amendment or addition: each member of that august body may by this
manner by having in his hand the whole subject of the it's deliberations in a view, will possess
before his material eye, what either he must have present to his mind's eye a mastery over it, which no other method can possibly confer: he must <add>may compare word by word</add>
error & confusion must be the consequence of failure & Article by Article; he may judge by a rapid & satisfying glance not only of the absolute
propriety of the several parts, but of their relative consistence: he will no longer submitt to the
unseemly trifling employment of doing a the same thing over & over again without end, for want of knowing
how a thing it was done before, or knowing that it was done: he will no longer feel himself posessed
PROMULGATION. Particular Codes. [2[XVI]
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