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were agreed to. But with respect to the other set, containing
the Consolidation and Condensation of the law, they were
to have stopped short, after the third reading, until all of them
had reached that stage. They were then to have been
united in a Single Law, and the amending bills which had
passed were to have been repealed, and incorporated with
the Single Bill consolidating and amending the Criminal
Law.
5. Whilst this was going forward, a series of bills,
consolidating and amending the law of Ireland, was to
have been introduced and prosecuted exactly like the others,
and ultimately to have been incorporated with the Single
Bill.
6. The Principle of Arrangement applicable to each Bill
in its first stage, and to the Single Bill in its respective
departments, was to bring every thing relating to a given
subject in one place. What a person employed in the
administration, (whether as adviser or as magistrate,) or interested
in the provisions of a law, wants to know is, what
in the whole law upon this or that subject? — what is the
whole law devised for the protection of Deer? — what is the
whole law devised for the protection of the productions of
the earth? — and so forth. And an arrangement, therefore,
which gives him this at one glance, seemed to me to be
preferable to one that sends him yo search for it in several
different Acts, or in several different departments of the
same Act.
7. The last item of the system was to have Reduced the
Criminal Common Law to Writing, as noticed before, and,
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