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taken away, sub silentio, - by implication, or
without express words.
I have carefully perused the Reports of a
Committee of the House of Commons in the
year 1811, on the Laws relating to the Penitentiary
Houses, and cannot find any thing that tends
to exclude the Visitorial Powers of the Grand
Inquest; — but on the Contrary, in Page 14, The
Committee state "that it is more particularly
"requisite that in a Penitentiary House opportunities
"of complaint should be frequent";
and at the Bottom of the Page 32, Sir George
Onisiphorous Paul, Bar.t, in his Evidence, says,
"I think it would be a defect, if it did not provide
"for a visitation in person, or if it dispensed
"with that, which is already provided by
"the general Law." —
Surely, the Words, "no
Person," in the 27 Sec:, cannot apply to, or exclude,
without some other express words, the Grand
Inquest (the Visitors or Inspectors of Prisons by
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