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VOLUME — example. BUILDERS ACT. 12. Geo. 3d. 73
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The 40th 41 & 42 Is Are retrospective indemnifying & temporary: they
regards gives indemnity upon Terms to Owners Builders whether
Masters & Servant or Workmen who had incurred the Penalties of former Statutes
It contains Adjective provisions & regards adds to the
Duties of Justices of the Peace
The 43d & 44th contains Adjective provisions giving
Appeal to Quarter-Sessions to on terms to all persons
prosecuted it in the summary way: that is to ........
The 45th contains Adjective provisions regarding
persons liable to be prosecuted in the regular way.
that is ......
The 46th Repeals former Laws
By The 47th it Declares itself a Public
Act
From this view survey it appears, that .... different
Denominations of persons are interested in this concerned to appraise
themselves of Portions some less some greater one of this
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I pretend not to have been exact in this Analysis, which is only made for the purpose of exemplification. Act: but none to burthen themselves with the
whole.
These Persons are 1st Mayors & Aldermen of London
2dly Justices of the Peace for within the
District there mentioned. 3dly Sheriffs & Bailiffs within the
same District. 4thly Clerk of the Peace
within the same district. 5thly Town Clerk of
London. 6th Common Council men. 7th Inhabitants.
7th the Secretary of the Admiralty
Office. 8th Directors of Insurance Offices
9th Constables. 10thly Beadles. 11th Turncocks
12. Engine keepers. 13. Churchwardens. 14
Overseers of the Poor. 15 [1] Commissioners of Sewers
These Officially —
Persons concerned Professionally are
1st Master Builders. 2d Work Labouring Builders
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The concentrating condensing of the Capitulary Catalogue of their duties even
into the compass of this huge Act has doubtless been a great comfort
& relief to the Builders who were are the principal objects, persons principally concerned as
having it presumably in some manner the taking of some steps or other has long been the
object of their wishes and their sollicitations but
one may still ask why these Builders, more
especially their workmen, plain men, often
utterly illiterate, are to have their memories burthened
with a collection of things to be remember'd
longer than 50 Catechisms and their little finances pockets
with the price purchase of a volume that must stand dearer
them in more than a common prayer Book,
& with 3/4 of which they have nothing to do. not the least concern
Why Constables & Beadles, the objects of but one single
clause? Why Turncocks and Engine-keepers, the objects of another single one
I believe the reader feels some repugnance at the Idea
of men of this description fishing for every occasion for the rule of their conduct in their business in such a Labyrinth Sea of Law
and yet suffer they must and severely some of them, for
ignorance; and if any one knows I should be glad he would
tell me a medium between ignorance and having recourse to using the
means of knowledge? [went the recurring to the expedient of making a selection is not much to be looked for from that & improvidence which characterizes the laboring class of men: a selection which [they are left to when if they do make it they make it make or some one for them] at their peril.] And this applies with more or less force to all the other denominations.
exercise their Judgment in making a right selection at
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their part.
And this applies with more or less force to all the other
denominations
Yet if they were to be assured from the best authority
the authority of Legislature, that of a certain Paper
every Syllable relates to them, & that there is nothing
more any where that does relate to them
& the whole were purged of the technical Cabbula [which is]
so tremendous to simple Laymen I see nothing improbable in the supposition of their
making themselves Masters of these moral, & consulting upon occasion if one
may so distinguish them, as well as the physical
Rules of their Craft employment.
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