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Indirect Legislation

Power § 4

Removing
Tearing down
libels &c

Provisions for defacing tearing down & destroying papers of a libellous, seditious, irreligious or
indecent nature when stuck up in the streets exposed to public view: for
seizing handbills of the same nature in the hands of
the distributors: for seizing prints or other imitative graphical
exhibitions of the like tendency when exposed in shops
to public view. These are All these expedients which belong
obviously enough to theis present head.
Qu. is not this referable
to Knowledge?

Forbidding servants
the use of sticks &c
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By an ordinance of the Police in Paris, livery
servants are forbidden not to wear not only swords,
but canes and sticks. Ordonnance du Lieutenant
General de Police
du 16 Oct. 1720; rapportée
dans le Code de
la Police Tom. I. p. 475
edit. 4. 1767.
In such hands it seems, such
implements it seems were thought more likely to be
used as instruments of mischief than defence.

Preventing the
introduction of
obnoxious books
As also this?

Books — importing, printing, possessing, selling

The same may be said of the provisions
which prohibiting against the im printing, importing, selling
or possessing carrying or keeping any books of which the tendency is
looked upon as pernicious. [Let it be allow'd
that] Grant Take but for granted that the tendency of such or such
a book is pernicious, and the propriety of such
provisions follows of course. See

Forbidding servants
the use of arms.

By an ordinance of the Police in Paris,
livery servants are forbidden to wear not only
swords, but canes and sticks. In such hands it
seems, such implements it seems were thought
more likely to be abused used as instruments of
mischief than defence. Ordonnance du Lieut.
Gen. de Police du 16 Oct.
1720, rapportée dans le
Code de la Police Tom. I
p. 475. 4.me edition.
1767.

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Identifier: | JB/087/094/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8 / f9 / f10
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