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done with him! Punished he cannot be under this clause for he has not now got
the money. Yet Why am I who have the money whether able or not to produce the
man I had it from – why am I to be punished worse than the man who had it
from before me? The more Compleatly Innocent I am the less likely am I to be able
to avail myself of this exemption. If I have a doubt about the goodness of the Shilling or –
Halfpenny – the stronger the doubt the more likely I am to take notice who
I took it from: I have no doubt at all what should engage me to –
make any such remark? One class of persons there is are, and but one who are
sure to know from whom they took bad money and who –
may allways have it in their power to avail themselves of the
Criminal Dealers whom it is the object of this clause to bring to
Punishment.
6. In the Case of the £50 Penalty imposed as above Sect 4. Ho. 5,
directions are given how it is to be applied viz: half to the King and
half to the Informer. Summary penalties are moreover imposed in Sect.
But the instance first mentioned is the only use in which any provision
is made, directly or in the way of reference respecting the application
of it.
7. Counterfeit Foreign Coin By Sect: Ho: Reward for Seizing Counterfeit
Foreign Coin: By Sect 9. Ho: Power to seize it without Warrant. What is
to be done with it when seized? and how is a man who has seized it to
obtain the reward there promised him? Neither the Act of Counterfeiting it now
that of altering it are included in the Clauses made for the Punishment
of those who Counterfeit or alter British Coin, neither is Counterfeit foreign
coin mentioned in Sect 8. Ho: 8, which gives power of search and Seizure
upon Warrant from a Justice. Things are there allowed to be done by a
Watchman or a Watchmans Deputy out of his own head which are
not allowed to be done by a Sworn Constable with a Warrant from a
Magistrate.
The passages in which Foreign money or Coin is
mentioned, is are three in Number the Phraseology in which it is mentioned
is different in all three and on consideration will probably appear not
proper in any case. In Sect: 9 11, it is "the money of any Foreign Country:
but the operation of Coining being in all considerable States the act and
in general the exclusivly privileged act of Government: the word State if not
substituted to the word Country should at any rate be added to it.
In Sect: 15 H 10, it is, the Coin of any Foreign Realm. Realm (from Roiaume)
is Kingdom and excludes from the intended protection all States that are
not Kingdoms: the American United States for Example, as also the
Dutch
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