★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
NOTORIETY. CODES in the Tabular form.
It may happen, that a Tradesman having through
indolence or Parsimony omitted to provide
himself with a Copy, may elude the penalty
by borrowing one of a Neighbour just
before the time of visitation: and one such
Copy thus handed about from one to another
may answer this purpose to a number
of persons of evading the Law without answering that which is the design if it's
designed establishment. — To prevent this, a blank space
in a some certain part of the Paper may be always
left to be filled up by the <add>each Possessor in</add> with his name & the place
of his abode. And in the case of Publicans, with
the name of the Room Chamber in which it is to
remain.
It may further happen, that & thus it may well
often happen. that the person who is the object
of [a Table of] the Laws may have an Interest
in its non appearance; & for that reason
as soon as he has produced it at a visitation
to save the penalty, may regularly
take it down again & secrete it till the next:
I know This is likely enough to be the case
for the instance, with Publicans the keepers of -
houses in regard to the regulations on that
subject — I know no better nor other remedy
for this, than the requiring there the table to be
pasted by up in the presence of the Justices
with such a composition cement as is not capable
of being redissolved so as that the for the purpose of taking
down the paper without destroying it: and
that it shall be signed by the Justice at
the time: this will last provision is necessary to ensure the perpetuity of
it's continuance: for without it, the Law might
be eluded by pasting up every time periodically a fresh
---page break---
Identifier: | JB/079/014/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 79. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
079 |
|||
014 |
promulgatn particular codes - persons in ques. to keep them publicly affixed - evasion obviated |
||
001 |
notoriety codes in the tabular form |
||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
|||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
||
caroline vernon |
|||
25456 |
|||