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§. 4 [Inscription Observations] [ 2 ] [ 2 ] [ 74 ] Page 51* [ " Or else to furnish ] p. 4
Over the Doors of mean Houses, to save the expense of good painting work, I have frequently
observed inscriptions of this sort, so small and ill-
-scrawled as to be scarcely legible. The type of
a Play-House Bill would be quite large enough
for the purpose, and might be the inscription might
thus be executed much cheaper than by painting,
and might therefore be given gratis to persons in poor
circumstances. On this plan, all or any number of doors
and inlets inlets might have, each of them, its inscription,
with scarce any addition to the expense. An inscription on
the principal Door,
or any number short of any one single the whole number
of Doors, would not,
in the sort of occupations
in question,
was come up to
the purpose. The
honest part of the
business would pass
through the public doors
that had the inscription,
the dishonest
part, through the
uninscribed and
private doors.
The use of theis
multiplicity of inscriptions is to expose, to view the view and vigilance of Surveyors any Back Doors which otherwise
might be purposely kept secret.

[ 3 ] 4 [ 75 ] <add>Page 51* [ A distinctive number ] p. 4 The number
of the House, and the number on the Register, will
serve as checks to one another. The In the Register, the last number
will exhibit at all times without summing up the total number
of licenced persons in each class. To this purpose, each
N Nos becoming vacant should Numbers as they <add>should, as it becomes vacant, receive a mark in the
margin, and no new n Nos should be added till the
prior vacant ones are filled up. Printed Papers
will remain legible for Years if not purposely defaced:
and against intentional defacemen if where a there exists an intention
to deface, neither paintin painter's nor any other
work can stand it. — The Stamp as well as the Number will serve as
a check against the forgery of the inscription.

Most of the clauses I have observed relative to inscriptions
of this sort content themselves with requiring
that they shall be "put up" : so that a man, after
having once put up his inscription, may take it down
again or deface it or at least suffer it to be taken down
again or defaced without replacing or repairing it, and yet without incurring exposing incurring the any
penalty: the words "keep constantly exhibited" (the words employd in §. 1) are designed
to obviate this defect.

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Identifier: | JB/150/521/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	74-75
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	521	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b7 / d97
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50742
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