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The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes

from this order, ought always to be listened to with great

precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been

long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous,

but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of

men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the

public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to

oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many

occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

# PRICES OF WHEAT

Year Prices/Quarter Average of different Average prices of in

each year prices in one year each year in money of 1776