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The purposes for which the Legislature intermeddles
with any instrument of enjoyment
or security, or in other words, the ends which
they propose to themselves in their regulations
concerning it are these 4. 6. Either, 1st
To prevent the embezzlement of it. or 2dly
to promote the consumption augment its prevention or quantity. of it: or 3dly
to discourage the consumption production diminish the quantity. of it in favour
of another some other article preferred to it: or, 4thly to
promote the perfection of it's + + Instance Road Acts quality
prevent frauds in the production of it, that is
to ensure the goodness of it's quality: or 5thly
To draw from it a revenue: Note. Gunpowder a particular cap. that Fireworks in general are may come together with that under the 6th head. or 6thly to prevent
mischief from the use of it. as in the article of Buildings, Gunpowder, & Fireworks or 7thly To promote prevent
proceeds on the sale of it.
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It will not interfere with any other principle method of
of order arrangement that might be established more commodious
for his views, and better adapted to
the purposes for which he has occasion to
cast his eyes over the Laws. There is
none such perhaps assignable; at least none
is there that I can think of. certainly there
is none such yet established put in practise.
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What is the inconvenience he lies under at
present? a particular subject matter comes
upon the carpet, and claims his attention.
Suppose the Woollen-manufacture. He
has occasion to take a review of the Laws
concerning it. He sets to work. himself upon the research He finds
it troublesome.
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What is it that makes it
so? It is this. He turns to one Volume, and He takes up a Volume, in
finds which the subject is begun: indeed but not concluded. it is not ended there
He is referred to another; he turns to that other;
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