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8 C
Of Defraudment by false standards
such as are found faulty to be destroyed.
IV. To compose a set of cautionary rules, instructing customers
how to beware of the several kinds of frauds that may
be practised in the application of the several sorts of standards,
and to oblige every trader to keep a printed copy
of these rules hung up in a particular place of his Shop,
where it may be sure to meet the eye of every customer that comes in.
. In It is to be observed that in this case also the default may in some instances be
owing to negligence: + + See Tit. [Simple Mercantile Frauds Defraudment] Instructions to the Legislator. though it is not so likely to be owing to
that cause as in the case of a bare deficiency in weight or measure.
Where genuine standards with a stamp are established
by authority, if a man use such as are unstamped this can
seldom be through negligence: though it may, if using such
as are stamped he suffer them to be out of order. In this
case, the destruction of the standards in question, with or without
a small fine may be a proper punishment. If any For a
further punishment be needed, the publication of the offender's second offence, publication as in the case of Simple mercantile
name (together with an account of the offence) in a manner defraudment. If the offence should ever be committed a third
more or less extensive, for instance by advertisement in a time, it may be taken as a violent presumption of fraud.
newspaper, or by proclamation in the market place, will
answer the design.
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