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fairs relating to these publick Grana-
„ries, is not very different in any of the
particular Governments, I (hall content
my self to set down the Rules oblerved
in it by the little Common-wealth of
Geneva, in which I had more Time to
inform my self of the Particulars than
in.any other. There are Three of the
Little Council deputed for this Office.
.They are obliged to keep together a
Provision sufficient to feed the People
at least Two Years, in case of War or
Famine. They must take care to sill
their Magazines in Times of the great-
est Plenty, that so they may afford cheap-
er, and increase the publick Revenue
at a small Expence of its Members.
None of the Three Managers must, up-
on any Pretence, furnifli the Granaries
from his own Fields, that so they may
have no Temptation to pay too great
a Price, or put any bad Corn upon the
Publick. They must buy up no Corn
growing within Twelve Miles of Ge-
neva, that so the filling of their Maga-
zines may not prejudice their Mar-
ket, and raise the Price of their Provi-
sions at Home. That such a Collcstion
of Corn may not spoil in keeping, all
the Inns and Publick-Houses are obliged
to furnish themselves out of it, by which
means is raised the ,most considerable
Branch
fairs relating to these publick Grana-
„ries, is not very different in any of the
particular Governments, I (hall content
my self to set down the Rules oblerved
in it by the little Common-wealth of
Geneva, in which I had more Time to
inform my self of the Particulars than
in.any other. There are Three of the
Little Council deputed for this Office.
.They are obliged to keep together a
Provision sufficient to feed the People
at least Two Years, in case of War or
Famine. They must take care to sill
their Magazines in Times of the great-
est Plenty, that so they may afford cheap-
er, and increase the publick Revenue
at a small Expence of its Members.
None of the Three Managers must, up-
on any Pretence, furnifli the Granaries
from his own Fields, that so they may
have no Temptation to pay too great
a Price, or put any bad Corn upon the
Publick. They must buy up no Corn
growing within Twelve Miles of Ge-
neva, that so the filling of their Maga-
zines may not prejudice their Mar-
ket, and raise the Price of their Provi-
sions at Home. That such a Collcstion
of Corn may not spoil in keeping, all
the Inns and Publick-Houses are obliged
to furnish themselves out of it, by which
means is raised the ,most considerable
Branch