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If the Gold and Silver are retained in the Bill,
the great disparity in value as between these metals
and compared with others, as likewise as between these metals as
compared with one another, will render it necessary
to fix the wholesale quantity at a different weight,
in these two instances. Provision for these differences
is accordingly made in the Bill text. Possibly it
Possibly it might be deemed advisable to
make a separate class of purchasers for sale for the purchasers of these
pretious metals. But it seems probable that there
are not at present any purchasers for old gold
or silver in small quantities, but those who either
sell them as second hand in the same form as
purchased, or melt them down, to be sold in the
form of bullion, or made again into new plate. - in other
words, none: but what are Gold and Silversmiths
by trade and nothing but Gold and Silversmiths
by trade, not dealing in old metals of any other
kind: because, while there are Gold and Silversmiths
keeping open shop as such, it does not some likely
that any oneperson who has either Gold or Silver of to
dispose of, should think of addressing himself to
an old iron purchasing shop, or any other shop
the trade of which consists in the purchase of
second hand metals of the inferior kinds, unless in
the case of a thief who addresses himself to some
such mean shop withthe the keeper of which he is connected, and
in whom he chooses to ripose his confidence, in preference
to a regular and reputable Goldsmith and Silversmith, by
whom he might be questioned and detected had malpractices
brought to light.
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jeremy bentham |
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