A proposal for putting some stop to the extravagant humour of stock-jobbing. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28429 of text R225309 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28429 Wing P3692 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 712.m.1[31] ESTC R225309 ocm99886033

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 eng Stock transfer -- England -- Early works to 1800 Stockbrokers -- Malpractice -- England -- Early works to 1800. eebo A proposal for putting some stop to the extravagant humour of stock-jobbing. . n/a 1697 2 399 6 0 0 0 0 0 150.38 F The rate of 150.38 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A PROPOSAL For Putting some Stop to the Extravagant Humour of Stock-jobbing .

WHEREAS great Quantities of several sorts of Shares in Stocks and Bank , &c. are daily Bought and Sold by Brokers , Stock-jobbers , and Others ; and by divers Arts and Stratagems Advanc'd and Lower'd , after an extravagant and unaccountable manner , to the great Prejudice of many Gentlemen , Merchants , Traders , and Others , and Ruine of many Families , and to the Discouragement of the Trade of this Kingdom in General , by imploying the Stock and Time of the Traders , whose Heads and Tongues being busied how to Outwit and Circumvent one another , are not at leisure to mind and follow their proper Trades and Callings .

It is therefore humbly Proposed ,

THAT from and after the 〈◇〉 Day of 〈◇〉 every Person who shall sell any Share or Shares in the said Stock or Bank , &c. shall within 〈◇〉 transferr the same to the Buyer thereof ; and upon every such Transferring there shall be paid the Summ of 〈◇〉 per Cent . by the Seller , and the Summ of 〈◇〉 per Cent . by the Buyer ; and the Summ of 〈◇〉 per Cent . by the Brokers , &c. which Summs , so paid , shall be appropriated as the Wisdom of the Parliament shall think most meet .

That no Stock brought shall be sold again , until it be first Transferred under a great Penalty .

That no Bargain shall be vallid for any Stock sold , until it be transferred , and the several Summs paid , as aforesaid .

That Certain Days and Times be appointed to Buy and Sell Stocks in , as there is for Cloth at Blackwell-hall , &c.

That no Stock be sold till the Owner have had it for a certain space of Time .

By which means the extravagant and unaccountable Methods of Brokers , Stock-jobbers , and Others , will in great measure be Restrain'd ; the Government supply'd with a Considerable Summ of Money Yearly ; the Fair Buyer and Seller at all times Accommodated ; and the Tradesmen more at Leisure to follow their several Trades and Callings .

All which is humbly offer'd to Consideration .

A PROPOSAL FOR Putting some Stop To the Extravagant Humour OF STOCK-JOBBING .