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[10] Page 10 §.1 [Gold and Silver] See the next Note
[11] Page 11 §.1 [Class 9<hi rend="superscript">th - Every Goldsmith &c]
Some of Among the businesses included in this class, more
there are several that ( may occasion no inconsiderable
difficulty: that of the Gold Goldsmiths and Silversmiths more
particularly, and which may therefore may here serve for an
example. On the one hand, [+] there are no occupations [+] these pretious metals being, by reason of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, still more exposed to depradation than any other,
in the of By which so much assistance is afforded
to depradation from which depradation, and thus in its
most alarming shape - burglary, aff derives so
copious and assistance, nor consequently whe in regard
to which the demand for the proposed system of controul
in question is more considerable: on the
other hand, there is none which contains so many
opulent men of so much opulence and so much
clearly superior to all suspicion of such confederacies. sinister practices.
To these it might be apt to appear not only an
hardship but an indignity to be subject to the controul
of a licence, and to be dependent for the
very faculty of confirming their business, on the
discretion of a Board, composed of members persons inof
less respectability, in as far as respectabilitytheir estimation of less respectability <add>than themselves.</add> and really so
is as far as respectability depends on opulence. thus
themselves Their being subject to these unpleasant
circumstances will however always depend upon
themselves: since, by confining purchases to
bullion and in respect of the subject matter of the purchase to
bullion, or, in regard to vendorsrespect of the persons purchased of to licenced purchasers,
they can never be under any difficulty about obtaining asupply
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