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must be taken out — and in like manner it will happen that the
dealers in old Metals will also chuse to deal in Rags and Hand-Stuff.
In like cases also two Licences will be necessary, and perhaps three or
four as the case may be, if the if the Dealers shall also keep Draught
and Truck Carts, but this will never be done unless such Dealers
find they can well afford it from the extent of their business and
the Profits attached to it. The Pawn Broker will in like manner
in some cases take out three Licences: one under the existing Laws:
a Second for Liberty to sell unredeemed pledges; and a third to
Sell Old Metals and Stores; but in all cases where the parties
shall chuse to subject themselves to these imposts, it will be in consequence
of the Trade they carry on being to such an extent and
producing such profit as to render it desirable, and in such cases
it is fair to presume that the profits of the business can well bear
such imposts.
The whole of the Dealers now proposed to be made subject
to the provisions of this Bill as so linked together, and form in so
great a degree the great root of that evil from whence every fraud
and depredation springs which it is the object of the Bill to correct
that it is impossible to separate them. The Old Store Shops for instance
are intimately connected with the Rag and Metal Shops and in like
manner the Dealers in old Wearing Apparel are equally connected
with the Pawn Brokers. The Selection of these different Dealers as
objects of regulation embraces every thing almost that can contribute
in any degree to the prevention of Crimes because it is through their
Medium and by means of the assistance and facilities which they
afford that almost all crimes are committed. And as it can be fairly
avowed that only the fraudulent part of the Community who are at
present nuisances in Society can be affected by these proposed regulations
it cannot with any degree of Justice be urged than any degree injury can
arise from the provisions of this Bill which are in the nature mild
and Salutary in as much as no offence against the intended Act is
punishable in any other manner than by a pecuiniary Penalty, and
placing difficulties in the way of the fraudulent while the Honestly
fair Dealer is encouraged and protected.
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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benjamin constant |
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