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3. Firemen - 4. Household Servants - 5. Turpentine
Distillers - 6. Shipwrights - Barge - & Boat-builders- .
7. Masterworkers.
Persons at large in virtue of some special
Character - not Official nor Professional.
1st Properties of Houses. 2dly. Occupiers
of Houses. 3dly Inventor
Persons at large in virtue of Inhabiting:
viz: all persons.
Total 27 — [Or if the Denomination of
Builders Labouring should be subdivided into 1 Carpenters.
2dly Bricklayers - 3dly Masons:
4thly Smiths. 5ly Plumbers,]
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Measures of Unity.
This Act has Unity of Subject -
But It has not Unity of Object+= meaning thereby the person to whom the mandates or Prohibitions are x: x Language has unhappily confounded the import of the word Object with that of End or Design. - for it's objects as
we have seen come as we have seen under 27 several Denominations.
But the Objects of a Law Code may be distinguished
under into the Direct Primary Original & 2ndly the Incidental
The Direct being the persons to whom the
Substantive provisions are adopted - the
Incidental, those to whom the Subjective, are
.
Tho' it x not strictly speaking x
as far as respects the Direct Objects: yet it possesses
Simplicity.
It possesses Simplicity - because the direct objects x of
more than one Denomination, yet become require their
character of objects no otherwise than in virtue of
the several relations they have to one Subject.
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It has not strictly in strictness speaking Unity of Design
[or End]
The main Design is to prevent Mischiefs from
Fire - The Combustion of Buildings but it looks also to the further prevention end of
preventing mischiefs from this weak ness of their construction++ ++Besides this the 22nd Section is solely occupied about directing a more commodious conveyance for the water
of
Unity of Subject is sufficient x Cause of Union
for Unity of x Aggregate Inactment
For Distribution Analogical Enactment Publication, Unity of Direct
Object is necessary.
But for Aggregate Enactment, the Subject should
not only be one, but exhausted all comprehensive. — And this
is not so — For it includes no Provisions against
WIllfull Fire-raising — Indeed these to be all-comprehensive adequate to the
as to the Design must x upon
other Subject as Mines & Vessels.
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