Stock-BROKERS, are those who are employed to buy and sell shares in the joint stock of a company or corporation. As the practice of stock-jobbing has been carried to such an excess as became not only ruinous to a great number of private families, but even affected, or at least might soon affect, the public credit of the nation, the legislature thought fit to put a stop to it, or at least to bring it within certain bounds, and under some regulation, by statute 7 George II. c. viii. sect. 1.