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5.2 C Of Defraudment by false standards
[(B) weight] To p. 5. par. 3 .
[(B) Quality] Thus the touchstone is a standard colour and thence
of purity in gold: the instrument called the hydrometer ,
of specific gravity and thence of purity or genuineness
in fermented spirits and other liquors.
Instructions to the Legislator
The nature of the instruments which may be
made use of to serve as standards of quality with respect in bodies
will be indefinitely various, according to the natures of
those bodies respectively , and according to such of their the qualities of
each of them has as there happens to be occasion for
putting to the test. Different bodies require different
standards. Diff In reqards to some of the standards may
require reg particular diff regulations. Some of these standards
may be of such a nature that it may be in
the power of the legislator to do something towards ascertaining
and securing the accureacy of them by particular
regulations. But different bodies are the productions
of different countries: so there the standards therefore which are may be required for indicating their qualities
will therefore accordingly be different in different
countries: so therefore will the regulations be
relative to those standards. To enter into the details
of such regulations would therefore be foreign to the present purpose - To p . 5 . No 3
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