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4. The bearing a part more or less considerable
in the application of the funds destined
for the relief of the poor.

5. The taking cognizance in the first instance in a judicial way
of various petty disputes and offences: to (a)
(a) The Court might be held
in the Church or Church Yard, immediately
after divine service. The
extreme publicity would be
an effectual bar to any intentional
abuse; and the
occasional trouble of an
appeal would be the
less to be grudged, as the
cause in the first instance
would have been heard
absolutely without expence:
Jury.
which might be added various preparatory services that
might be rendered in furtherance of justice. (b)
(b) Such as the taking measures
for the preservation
of evidence, in case
where the interference
of officers and acting
within a larger sphere
and by that means
residing at a distance
would might come too late.

6. The performing superintending the office of burial, and
that of naming infants, with or without the
ceremony of baptism, [in the instances where at the option of such as
the persons concerned] think proper to resort to
their ministry for that purpose.

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3 - upon the supposition
of its being
pernicious
3. Even to in the eyes of those who consider it as mysterio
mischievous motives inducements <add>consideration may</add> not be wanting
and those adequate nor those inadequate are for interfering subjecting
it to the interference influence of government. Mischievous
as it is, it may be worth the while
of government to interpose if it were only in
the hope of rendering it as little so as possible:
and that the more worth while the more mischievous
it would be apt to be if unmodified and
uncontrouled.

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Interference Objection - of government
in this way unfairly
implies some degree
of coercion
and particularly
the appointing pecuniary
provision
Interference on the part of government
it must all along be remembered implies coercion:
for it is only in as far as it applies
coercion that government can interfere. On
the other hand on this occasion as on every
other it must be assumed that no other species nor greater degree of
coercion ought to be applied than what is absolutely
necessary to effect the purpose. The
establishment of a fixed salary to any set of officers implies so
much coercion as is necessary for the regular
collection of the amount. It is this species and
degree of coercion is that which the effecting of the

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