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Sect. XII. Persons at Large.
Art. II.

Whoso willfully committeth mischief on any Turnpike
road, by defacing damaging or removing any
work of wood stone or other material placed or
thrown up [1] for the security guarding of a causeway, [or|2] for
the forcing off of any water or hollow place] or [3]
[for the marking of a boundary], or [4]for the direction,
of travellers or [5] [for the lighting of the road] or [6]for the purpose
of a bridge, or [7 for draining off of water, or [8]for any
other purpose of use or ornament, not mentioned
in the Article following, shall forfeit a Sum not less than
10s nor more than £5.

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Observations.

Great are the pains taken in this laborious preamble
to persuade men of what nobody ever yet could doubt
of. advanced however to It may be a means perhaps of inducing a compiler to
save himself this trouble, or may to observe to him, that
the mischief he means to guard against is either
possible or not; if it is, one may then venture to say to him forbid it boldly; credit will hardly be refused you for having
supposed as much: if it is not, 'tis not what you say will make it so.

It may be worth while to hear Ld Bacon's sentiments of a clauses thus constructed in this manner. " + +De Augm. Scientim L.8.c.3.Aphor 71. Est vers genus persevibendi
leges valdi vitiosum. Cum sciticet casus ad quem lex collvinat, fute exprimetier in preambulo: deinde ex vi verbi [tulis
aut hujiusmodi relativi, corpus legis retro vertitur in preambulum, unde preambulum inseritur et incorporatur ipse lege:
Quod et obscurum est, & ininus tutum; quia non eadem ad hiberi consuivet diligentia in ponderandis et examinandis
verbis preambuli, qua adhibitior in corpore ipsius legis." One way there is of composing laws that is very virtuous. To
con't. when the case whereat the law is levelled, is diffusely expressed in the preamble; whereupon by force of the word
[such] (or the like relative) the body of the law is turned back onto upon the preamble, which by this means becomes inserted into,
& incorporated with, the law itself. Now this is both unsafe and not less unsafe than it is obscure: obscure and even unsafe: since the words of the preamble are
seldom weighed and examined with diligence attention which is bestowed upon the [body of the] law itself."

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