JB/071/163/003

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15 C Frauds relative to the Coin.

Regulating Kindred-Arts exercise of it might be laid under certain restrictions . For instance
no man might be allowed to use the instument in
question without a licence: nor should any man who was allowed to use it be allowed to keep it by him at all times ; it
might be kept under several keys of which an officer, to
be appointed for the purpose , should have one , so as not to
be sued but in his presence.

As to the mere Act of Coining considered by itself
the chance of convicting a man of it upon direct proof is comparatively
very slender ; such proof unless by some very extraordinary
accident is never to be had but from the testimony
of some of the confederates. This is owing to the particular
nature of the act which, however mischievous it
may be in its design and consequences, yet not being the
very act from which the mischief immediately takes its
birth is never in any likelyhood of being performed in presence
of any of the parties who come afterwards to be injured
by it : by which circumstance that source of testimony is entirely

Identifier: | JB/071/163/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field	frauds relative to the coin
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23566
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