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DIGEST. Publican's Law. Observations. (32
passage has been recommended by Dalton and said to mentioned as
having in his time been in use, are quoted by Dr
Burn. I Whether proper in themselves I shall not take upon me to
inquire. They present The purport of them is to design of them is to prevent waste of time and health by : waste of time and health by too long sittings under the name of tippling and the in this design limit the hours within
which the Houses licensed shall be open: these hours are
expressly mentio specified: [the flux quantity of time is for this purpose
if I one may so say, assessed.] This is at least is doing somthing,
whether a somthing that upon the whole is proper to be done,
is another question: a question perhaps not very easy to
determine. A foolish Statute made much about Dalton's
time takes up the same design. It prohibits the
continuance suffering of persons [except as those excepted] to "continue drinking and tippling": but as it has assessed particularized <add>liquidated <add>specific
no time, as it says not what time employd in drinking
shall be deemed continuance, and as nobody therefore could
know how to obey it or when to execute it, it does
worse than nothing.
In these regulations
If however they however are proper in themselves if fit to be established
anywhere all it is by then is nothing but what is fit to be established
in one place as in another. + Granting however that the regulations have spoken, are proper in themselves fit to be established, is by this is not the authority they need to establish them; nor this the penalty to arm them The Local propriety
them nothing legal in it. in them there is none. Nothing that makes
it requisite for persons acting as legislators in this
behalf for a particular district to consider whether
they be proper fit for that particular district or no: it is they are
fit for every district or for none. If proper to be established
at all, it is by the Legislature Supreme General therefore that
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