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Observations
IV. Regulations
§ 30
S2 continued
Marking Metals

But in the instance of iron a mark three several marks
were [by 23.G.c.29. §.13] required to be made by the authority of the Commissioners of the Customs in the
length of every bar imported from the Colonies, and this
to no other purpose than either the serving the importation
of it ascertaining either the point of its having been being imported
from one of the Colonies in contradistinction to any other
place, or that of ascertaining its having been imported
into the Port of London in contradistinction to other
British ports. The ascertaining the proof of The difference between the an
articles having and not having been stolen seems a point of
rather more importance and rather better worth the trouble of ascertaining than either of these two.
points. The clause in which the stamp But if,
the iron in the instance of iron, the har of all metals
the hardest, the most difficult to stamp, and the
most apt to lose by mere lapse of time any stamp
that has been impressed upon it, the trouble of stamping
each piece three times over is a trouble not
too great to be grudged, much less for the effecting of
the proposed purpose, much less can it be so in the
instance of any other metal. The clause by which
the operation of stamping was thus prescribed, was repealed
(it may be observed) is it is true written about seven
years after it was past (viz: by 30.G.2.c.16.§.4)
But that then it was not any such day consideration as that of the trouble of the operation
that pr gave birth to the repeal, appears from the
words of the bil itself: it was not th because it had
too trouble ever been too troublesome, but because it
would "for the future be unnecessary" - the object of which
it was intended to help accomplish, viz: the securing to confining the
Port of London importation of the article to the Port
of London being in that by the preceding clauses in
that same Statute given up.

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