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A regulation which obliges all those of the same trade in a

particular town to enter their names and places of abode in a

public register, facilitates such assemblies. It connects

individuals who might never otherwise be known to one another,

and gives every man of the trade a direction where to find every

other man of it.

A regulation which enables those of the same trade to tax

themselves, in order to provide for their poor, their sick, their

widows and orphans, by giving them a common interest to manage,

renders such assemblies necessary.