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They generally, therefore, chuse to come upon the parish.

Whatever obstructs the free circulation of labour from one

employment to another, obstructs that of stock likewise; the

quantity of stock which can be employed in any branch of business

depending very much upon that of the labour which can be employed

in it. Corporation laws, however, give less obstruction to the

free circulation of stock from one place to another, than to that

of labour. It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to

obtain the privilege of trading in a town-corporate, than for a

poor artificer to obtain that of working in it.