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PROMULGATION. Particular Codes. [XVII] Traders in genere NOTORIETY PARTICULAR CODES
Codes of Laws relating to every denomination of persons(particularly to every
commercial denomination) should be published by Authority — notice when the collection
is completed to be given in the Gazette by Proclamation — reported every quarter day in the year — & in <add>all</add> Parliamentary country <add>nation</add>
that the respective Codes contain all that relates particularly to the respective
denominations; A new Edition to be published in case of any alteration - or the added part alone, in case of any addition that the person comprized under then be assured that they know the
whole Law — It would be a great comfort & satisfaction to individuals — none
could pretend ignorance — 50 years [in less] in execution of a Law giving a specific pecuniary penalty to make it obsolete unless revived by Proclamation — Non placet. persons interested to execute the Law would always be
able to see Law — the Law would be both better known & better executed — not
for a frustrating mercy upon to exert itself the ground of ignorance in the offender —
Works of this sort have indeed been undertaken on some of the most principal & extensive topics — but
they have been published chiefly by obscure hirelings in whom the purchaser could have
no confidence: always by private persons whose opinion was no authority.
Division of these personal denominations into Commercial & Civil. Qu. whether be
Nothing visionary in this nor difficult to be executed.
No man would grudge to pay this slight tax for the purchase of his .
The Law under the largest of the Oeconomical Titles might be reduced to the compass of a large Sheet pri printed
in a small type — to be hanged hung up in the Shop or Counting-house — Thus the Trader would
have the whole Law that he was concerned to know before him in one view.
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