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This Article + + by the help of Art.... of the Rules & Definitions including Sect. 22 & 3 of the original
and as far as the words
or stile thereof: the reason of inserting the
remainder, of it, I shall presently
coupled as it is in this odd way by the adversative particle
By the odd manner in which this latter part of
the Section is locked on to the former, it
put here
as if it were to save a clause already existing from the effect of the clause to which it is opposed than to establish any an original provision of it's own looks as if it were rather a saving than
an original clause of itself
That carriages of a certain kind shall not
be restrained with regard to their weights as
others are, & that they same carriages shall
pay less Toll than others do; are the propensities
than which nothing can be more distinct:
It seems as if it had been the endeavour of
this Section to confound them:
may lead people to understand as The effect of this union may be that the exemption of from the instruments concerning weight may be understood to be confined to the 100 miles around London as well as the indulgence in respect of Toll
means however are here found to give it them the appearance
of a connection, as if to make confusion more
the design
It is true, no one can see how it should happen
that the exemp making imposing these regular restrictions
on other carriages respective
derogating from weight should have the effect of taking preventing
away from these the indulgence concerning Tolls, is what
cannot should hardly <add>not easily</add> well imagine: but it is so
common to see provisos made against
a construction which no one but the compiler
could have thought of, that this is not sufficient
to prevent it's being understood in such
a sense
another effect of this in calculated is to make it that the Court may be understood to apply to the one as well as to the other
as if the meaning were that the restraint had
upon other carriages in the matter of weight
should not hinder the indulgence here as
it were (as if it already subsisted) from having it's
effect. it is true that it would be nobody would well in
according how it should hinder it] to the number of
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