JB/149/018/001

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8. Retail Dealers in Old Iron, and Metals.

The License proposed in this Instance relates to the same Class of People
dealing in Old Iron and Metals by retail of which there are and always
will be a vast number in the different parts of the Kingdom & particularly
in the Capital. — It is these Retail Dealers that collect the Old
Metals and likewise the Articles made therefrom in the first instance
and as often as they can offer any thing of consequence for Sale the more
opulent or Wholesale Dealers are ready to purchase for Money paid
down so that the retail Dealer can always Trade in the Capital of the
Wholesale Dealer and it is not unusual for them to turn their little
Capitals 30 or 40 times a Year at a Profit of from 40 to 60 P Cent
so that they can well afford to pay a License Duty. — The fair Trader will
be glad of such regulations as will protect him against the opposition
of the Fraudulent which at present drives the Honest Man out of
the Trade and compels People not desirous to do wrong to wink at
improper things as the only means under the present circumstance
of carrying on their business and supporting their Families. The
Vigilance of the Magistrates of late in ordering those Shops to be more
narrowly watched in the Eastern Quarter of the Metropolis has
created some alarm and occasioned the adoption of some new Tricks
and expedients which are no less evidences of the Villainy that is
practised than of the ingenuity of those who carry it on. — In place
of receiving Goods as heretofore openly in their Shops they do their
principal Business up little Courts and in remote Lanes. One Dealer
in particular has taken a Cheesemongers Shop where Cheese and
Butter are only exhibited. To this Place their Customers are
directed to go and they are admitted by a back Door up a
Court where the business is done in a private room and from thence
Copper, Brass, Leaad &c are conveyed in butter Firkins without
Suspicion or Danger of Stoppage after Dark. This is another

Identifier: | JB/149/018/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	retail dealers in old iron and metals / persons purchasing old iron or other metals for manufacture / persons keeping and using crucibles &c / carts employed in collecting naval stores &c / truck carts employed as above
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49872
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