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<DATE>2014-08-12</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140638.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A PROPOSAL For Putting &s;ome Stop to the <HI>Extravagant Humour</HI> of <HI>Stock-jobbing.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHEREAS great Quantities of &s;everal &s;orts of <HI>Shares in Stocks</HI> and <HI>Bank, &amp;c.</HI> are daily Bought and Sold by Brokers, Stock-jobbers, and Others; and by divers Arts and Stratagems Advanc'd and Lower'd, after an <HI>extravagant</HI> and <HI>unaccountable manner,</HI> to the great Pre|judice of many Gentlemen, Merchants, Traders, and O|thers, and Ruine of many Families, and to the Di&s;courage|ment of the Trade of this Kingdom in General, by imploy|ing the Stock and Time of the Traders, who&s;e Heads and Tongues being bu&s;ied how to Outwit and Circumvent one another, are not at lei&s;ure to mind and follow their proper Trades and Callings.</P>
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<P><HI>It is therefore humbly Propo&s;ed,</HI></P>
<P>THAT from and after the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> Day of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> every Per&s;on who &s;hall &s;ell any <HI>Share</HI> or <HI>Shares</HI> in the &s;aid <HI>Stock</HI> or <HI>Bank,</HI> &amp;c. &s;hall within <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> transferr the &s;ame to the Buyer thereof; and upon every &s;uch Transfer|ring there &s;hall be paid the Summ of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>per Cent.</HI> by the Seller, and the Summ of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>per Cent.</HI> by the Buyer; and the Summ of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>per Cent.</HI> by the Bro|kers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which Summs, &s;o paid, &s;hall be appropriated as the Wi&s;dom of the Parliament &s;hall think mo&s;t meet.</P>
<P>That no <HI>Stock</HI> brought &s;hall be &s;old again, until it be fir&s;t Transferred under a great Penalty.</P>
<P>That no Bargain &s;hall be vallid for any <HI>Stock</HI> &s;old, until it be transferred, and the &s;everal Summs paid, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>That <HI>Certain Days</HI> and <HI>Times</HI> be appointed to Buy and Sell <HI>Stocks</HI> in, as there is for Cloth at <HI>Blackwell-hall,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>That no <HI>Stock</HI> be &s;old till the Owner have had it for a certain &s;pace of Time.</P>
<P>By which means the <HI>extravagant</HI> and <HI>unaccountable Me|thods</HI> of Brokers, Stock-jobbers, and Others, will in great mea&s;ure be Re&s;train'd; the Government &s;upply'd with a Con&s;iderable Summ of Money Yearly; the Fair Buyer and Seller at all times Accommodated; and the Trade&s;men more at Lei&s;ure to follow their &s;everal Trades and Callings.</P>
<CLOSER>All which is humbly offer'd to Con&s;ideration.</CLOSER>
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<P>A <HI>PROPOSAL</HI> FOR Putting &s;ome Stop To the <HI>Extravagant Humour</HI> OF STOCK-JOBBING.</P>
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