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C 17.

Of Semi-public Offences in General.

provided against with more or less attention in the laws relative to navigation.

7. Tempest. Tempest is provided against in the way of administration, by the
formation and improvement of harbours and by the erection of lighthouses:
in the way of legislation, by penalties annexed to such practices
as are supposed directly or indirectly to contribute to the damaging
of such works: also by various provisions in the Laws of
Navigation.

8. Blight. 8. As to Blight or the deleterious influence which the atmosphere is apt to
exert on certain objects in certain situations when sharpened by cold or impregnated
with noxious effluvia, I know of no particular instance where
special measures are taken by any Law for the express purpose of guarding
against the calamity; It may be considered however as an offence
the tendency of which is to bring on this calamity, wherever any injury
is done to walls or woods or other barriers which have been established
or preserved as a means of defending a country against the influence
of such causes.

9. Conflagration. The guarding against the calamity of Conflagration is an object
which is more or less attended to in every civilized State. In Towns,
by laying in supplies of water, providing machines for applying
it where it may be wanted, and making it the business of particular
persons to betake themselves upon the first alarm to the place
of danger, and employ the requisite measures for suppressing it. So much
in the way of administration. In the way of Legislation, by regulating the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	132	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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