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having, out of decency, put on the mask of the Censor
when he began at the commencement of his speech, he sufferd it unawares
to drop from him before he had got to a conclusion.
In the Preamble to the 1st Section the Morals of the People were to be
taken care of, by providing that Houses of entertainment
should be kept only by persons of fair character
and even by them not in too great abundance. By
the time he had got to the 3d Section the morality of
the piece was forgotten; but considering that the Alehouse-keeper
had paid once for a license for his house, for the usual term
and that it might seem hard to be made to pay
for it over again, provision is made accordingly
that the license should not be required: to be renewed nothing being
seen in the license by this time, but the money that was to be
got for it. How a new clause provision came to be made
made three years afterwards on purpose to dispense even with
the certificate is a mystery, I must confess, utterly
unfathomable to me: unless it be, that some looker-out
for the Treasury happening to know of a man man who wishing to get in this manner into a Public House, but not being able to get a Certificate, went
into some other way of business, discover'd that if a Certificate
had not been to be insisted on, the Treasury might
might
have been so much the richer by what this man would have
been to pay if he had continued another year taken the house and continued
it on. It were to be wished that Legislators who in
general plain cases are so liberal in reasons that teach us nothing
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