REASONS Humbly Offered, Against a Clause in the Bill for Regulating Brokers, &c. for making voided all Contracts and Agreements already made, concerning Bank-Notes, Bank-Stock, and all other Joynt-Stocks.  
WHen the Nature of such Agreements is understood, it is humbly hoped the said Clause will not pass, many Persons having through the Scarcity of Money been Necessitated to supply their Occasions by several Methods.  
I. Some to pay Bills of Exchange, and for other pressing Occasions, have been forced to Sell Bank-Stock, and Shares in other Stocks, and Bank-Notes, and to save themselves from too great Loss, have made Agreements to receive back the said Stocks and Notes on certain Terms, whereby they know their certain Loss, which as is Conceived was very allowable to do.  
II. Some have sold Goods at time, for which they were Obliged to take Bank-Notes, and had no other way to make to themselves a certain reasonable Profit, but by being Insured that they should not lose above a certain Rate, and whereon depend many Contracts.  
III. Many Persons have lent Money to the Government on Tallies, which they would not have done, if they could not by this means have Insured themselves.  
IV. This would be not only to punish Persons who have Transgressed no Law, but would also change the Property of Persons without any certain Rule, and would in many Cases be a Benefit to those who by this Bill are supposed to have committed a Crime.  
V. Many Persons having taken Premiums, to deliver Bank-Notes and Stocks at certain Times, and to that end have kept their Bank-Notes and Bank-stocks, and other Stocks, to deliver according to their Agreements, which otherwise they would have sold, by which means Bank-stock and Bank-Notes would have been of lesser Value than at present they are.  
It is therefore Hoped, that it will not be thought suitable to the Wisdom and Justice of the Honourable House of Commons, to pass the said Clause, whereby Mens Properties will be destroyed, and many Families utterly ruined.