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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A PROPOSAL Humbly offer'd to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons;</HI> For an Additional Tax to be paid upon Regulating and Licen&s;ing <HI>Pawn-Brokers;</HI> and all manner of Per&s;ons driving Trades or Occupations, that have not &s;erved Apprenti&s;hips,<NOTE PLACE="marg">See 14. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 5th.</NOTE> or be not free of &s;ome City or Town Corporate.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Te&s;timonials al&s;o for Servants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nigh 1000 Bayliffs and Followers depend on the Knt. Mar&s;hals Court.</NOTE> Bayliffs, Serjeants, Apparetors and their Followers, and Retaylers of all manner of Liquors (except Wine) to be Licen&s;ed by the Ju&s;tices of Peace, as Retaylers of Wine are Licen&s;ed by Commi&s;&s;ioners: And for the due an&s;wering the &s;ame, as well as the Duties upon Pedlers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 'twill be without any Charge to His Maje&s;ty, and with little trouble to the Per&s;ons Licen&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P>THat Blank Licen&s;es may be di&s;per&s;ed by the Propo&s;er, in Parchment, Vellum or Paper un&s;tamp'd, throughout the Kingdom, and a Receipt thereon, to be Sold at two Pence Price, for each Licen&s;e with the Receipt.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Thus an e|qual and more profit will be to the Clerks, than Ale-Hou&s;e Li|cences are now.</NOTE>That the Per&s;ons to be Licen&s;ed, may bring one of the &s;aid Licen|&s;es to &s;ome Ju&s;tice of Peace, who&s;e Clark may have three Pence for filling up the &s;ame.</P>
<P>That the &s;ame Licen&s;es as filled up, may be carried to &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Collectors<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">They come to every Market-Town each Month.</NOTE> of His Duty of Exci&s;e, and upon paying the Duty to him, he may &s;ub&s;cribe his Name to the Receipt, and put &s;ome Stamp upon it, to be Felony to counter&s;eit: And may without a Stamp appoint a Deputy.</P>
<P>That the Licen&s;e &s;o &s;tamped, may be Regi&s;tred by the Mini&s;ter or Clerk of &s;ome Pari&s;h, who may Stamp the &s;ame, to &s;hew it is Regi&s;tred, and the Con|&s;table and Church-Wardens may tran&s;mit true Copies of the Regi&s;tries, into the Exchequer, to be a Controll upon the Receivers or Collectors, to prevent fraud.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Apprentices above 16, to have their Indentures &s;tamped, and they as well as the licen&s;|ed, to &s;eize tho&s;e who wander with out Licen&s;e.</NOTE>That all Servants whenthey depart from their Ma&s;ters, Mi&s;tre&s;les or Dames may have a Te&s;timonial, under the hand of the Ma&s;ter, Mi&s;tre&s;s or Dame, of &s;uch Servants faithful and good Service and Deportment, to be Regi&s;tred in the Pari&s;h, where the Ma&s;ter, Mi&s;tre&s;s or Dame re&s;ide or dwell; and a Duty of two Pence or more for each Te&s;timonial, may be paid to &s;ome of the Collectors of the Exci&s;e of his Maje&s;ty, and true Capies of the Regi&s;try of &s;uch Te&s;timonials, may be tran&s;mitted into the Exchequer, as afore&s;aid, to be a Check and Con|troll upon the Collectors: And whoever entertains any one to be his or her Servant without &s;uch Te&s;timonial, may be without Remedy, in ca&s;e of Damage done by any Servant &s;o entertained.</P>
<P>The Propo&s;er hath a Draught framed of a Licen&s;e and of an Acquittance, and a Model of a Stamp can procure, which cannot ea&s;ily be counterfeited.</P>
<P>That no one out of Fair or Market, Buy Goods but of whom they know, or &s;ome one to Vouch; Nor Pawns for Reckonings of Strangers, without &s;ome Pari&s;h Officer be pre&s;ent, to prevent the Receiving or Buying &s;tolen Goods.</P>
<P> <HI>The&s;e Propo&s;als by mode&s;t computation would rai&s;e</HI> 300000 <HI>l.</HI> per Annum, <HI>and hurt no body; for in each Pari&s;h there is a petty Chandlers Tippling Brandy-Shop,</HI> 600 <HI>in the late Reign were &s;urvey'd in one great Pari&s;h, and were to have &s;uch Pedlers Licen&s;es Arbitrarly; one of which may be produc'd, if de&s;ir'd.</HI></P>
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