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Act— "That no Person except the Officers or Servants
"of the Penitentiary or such Person or Persons as
"shall be authorized according to the Regulations
"established by the said Committee shall be permitted
"at any Time to enter any of the Apartments
"or Court Yards allotted to the Convicts
"or to hold Conversation or Communication with
"any of them;"— the Grand Inquest were included,
and could not visit it, without an
Order or an Authority according to the Regulations
established by the said Committee.—
With all due deference to the Judgment
of M.r Justice Bayley, it is conceived, that the
general words "no Person" could never intend
to include the Grand Inquest (consisting of
23 Persons)— or that the wholesome,—visitorial
and Common Law Rights, Powers, and Privileges
of the Grand Inquest, the Constitutional
Censors of the Public, can be frittered or
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