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PROMULGATION. Particular Codes. [XVII] Traders in genere NOTORIETY PARTICULAR CODES
Codes of Laws relating respectively to every denomination of persons (particularly to every
commercial denomination) should be published by Authority — notice when the collection
is completed to be given in the Gazette by Proclamation — reported every quarter day in the year — & in <add>all</add> Parliamentary country <add>nation</add>
that the respective Codes contain all that relates particularly to the respective
denominations; A new Edition to be published in case of any alteration - or the added part alone, in case of any addition that the person comprized under then be assured that they know the
whole Law — It would be a great comfort & satisfaction to individuals — none
could pretend ignorance — 50 years [in less] in execution of a Law giving a specific pecuniary penalty to make it obsolete unless revived by Proclamation — Non placet. persons interested to execute the Law would always be
able to see Law — the Law would be both better known & better executed — not
for a frustrating mercy upon to exert itself the ground of ignorance in the offender —
Works of this sort have indeed been undertaken on some of the most principal & extensive topics — but
they have been published chiefly by obscure hirelings in whom the purchaser could have
no confidence: always by private persons whose opinion was no authority.
Division of these personal denominations into Commercial & Civil. Qu. whether be
Nothing visionary in this nor difficult to be executed.
No man would grudge to pay this slight tax for the purchase of his .
The Law under the largest of the Oeconomical Titles might be reduced to the compass of a large Sheet pri printed
in a small type — to be hanged hung up in the Shop or Counting-house — Thus the Trader would
have the whole Law that he was concerned to know before him in one view.
Select Title to exhibit as a specimen
1) Qu. whether there might not be
some a few General Laws concerning all
Traders. i.e: of a nature
in respect of generality between
the Universal Code & the particular
Codes of each profession.
As for example a few provisions
concerning smuggling in general
2) The Prohibitions of importing & exporting not to be comprized in the [particular] Codes of particular
Trades — The whole number detail of Articles prohibited to be imported to be specified in one general Index, &
of those to be imported in another- unless it may be found expedient to divide each into that of each <add>articles</add>
the prohibition is simple & absolute, & where it is sub modo
The mode of suing & application of the penalty in all cases to be reduced to one, unless it can be
shewn that in the case of any particular Article a different mode of suing & application from
that presented concerning the rest has it's expediency.
All these circumstances might be tabulated, & the Table comprized in one Sheet to be hung up
Make those Indexes marking any such as require modifications. such as are palpably impossible. without it going
discuss that discuss that which belong to oeconomical Laws Laws
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