it used
be
1900 Ordinance
7
The number.
Ar
al a
659
extent, but I think not
a large scale, rate nothing before the
like what
was passed. Licenses
like
of
dealers
is decreasing Annually,
& the
8
which fact points
Same Column.
But the weak spot about
the whole scheme
is
that we have wholly no
means of Checking Smuggling
into the
Colony
the
arms imported
as such we can
But there being nothing
of the nature of a
Examination
at Customs
arms might be imported in any quantity under the heading of "general cargo" or any other false declaration, & subsequently exported under the same descriptions, & except by luck
No
one
need be
the
licenser. Such importation is
illegal but the
chance of detection would be
slight, so that
it is assumed
the Colony
is concerned. I have no reason for supposing
this is done might be
6
that
particular
but it