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Observations
IV. Regulation
§. 30
82
Power to
for appointing
for &c, to
make it to
have an ingot &c
without such
The provision
a good one with
such a power, but
not otherwise

§ 8 [ 1 ] [ Rules of Council ] p. §. 30 [ 1 ] [ 82 ] Page 61. [ . . Council . . . to ordain . . . what . . . . marks . . .
. . shall . . . . be . . . thereupon ] In the Instructions it
seems to be taken for granted assumed, that, excepting such
marks as are melted down by thieves no or their
receivers, no met a masses of metal in an unfashioned
state are found without certain distinctive
marks. That a practice of this sort is general
at least, I take for granted from this assumption: but
before it can be proper to inflict penalties on persons
not having masses of metal in their possession
without such marks, several points (it should seem)
will require to be ascertained, some of which at least
appear dubious, viz:
1. Whether at present any such the practice in question is not
only general, but universal, without any exception
in the instance of every sort of metal and metallic
mixture, among all honest dealers?
2. Whether the mode of marking, in all the immense
variety of instances is uniform, or it may
not though not altogether precisely the same in all these
cases, yet in all of them such as is of such a nature as to be already sufficiently
adapted to the intended purpose? - Before I took upon
me to draw up a clause
by which Parliament
would do the business
of itself without further
lights, it would be my
wish to see all the
several marks that
are in use for metals
in their unfashioned
state. In the instance
of Iron imported from
abroad affords (I have reason
to think) one instance
at least of a mass of
metal which exhibits itself in this state
without exhibiting
its any manufacturer's
name.
3. Whether it might not happen that if the prohibition
in question were to be made absolute
by the Act of Parliament itself, it might not happen,
that a man having had who had never
had in his possession any bar or ingot &c but
what had been marked, might yet become have rendered himself liable
to the penalties of the Act, by having separated cut off for use
for use, from the entire bar or ingot, a portion not
bearing on the mark or any part of it, if sufficient
time were not allowed for the employment working up
of all such unmarked portions as may have
thus been separated from the part bearing which bears the mark?

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Identifier: | JB/150/530/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	82
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	530	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
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