A PROPOSAL For Putting some Stop to the Extravagant Humour of Stock-jobbing.  
WHEREAS great Quantities of several sorts of Shares in Stocks and Bank, &c. are daily Bought and Sold by Brokers, Stock-jobbers, and Others; and by divers Arts and Stratagems advanced and lowered, after an extravagant and unaccountable manner, to the great Prejudice of many Gentlemen, Merchants, Traders, and Others, and ruin of many Families, and to the Discouragement of the Trade of this Kingdom in General, by employing the Stock and Time of the Traders, whose Heads and Tongues being busied how to Outwit and Circumvent one another, are not at leisure to mind and follow their proper Trades and Callings.  

It is therefore humbly Proposed,  
THAT from and after the 〈◇〉 Day of 〈◇〉 every Person who shall sell any Share or Shares in the said Stock or Bank, &c. shall within 〈◇〉 transfer the same to the Buyer thereof; and upon every such Transferring there shall be paid the sum of 〈◇〉 per Cent. by the Seller, and the sum of 〈◇〉 per Cent. by the Buyer; and the sum of 〈◇〉 per Cent. by the Brokers, &c. which sums, so paid, shall be appropriated as the Wisdom of the Parliament shall think most meet.  
That no Stock brought shall be sold again, until it be first Transferred under a great Penalty.  
That no Bargain shall be vallid for any Stock sold, until it be transferred, and the several sums paid, as aforesaid.  
That Certain Days and Times be appointed to Buy and Sell Stocks in, as there is for Cloth at Blackwell-hall, &c.  
That no Stock be sold till the Owner have had it for a certain space of Time.  
By which means the extravagant and unaccountable Methods of Brokers, Stock-jobbers, and Others, will in great measure be restrained; the Government supplied with a Considerable sum of Money Yearly; the Fair Buyer and Seller at all times Accommodated; and the tradesman more at Leisure to follow their several Trades and Callings.  
All which is humbly offered to Consideration.    

A PROPOSAL FOR Putting some Stop To the Extravagant Humour OF STOCK-JOBBING.