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CERTAINTY. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.

After the due apportionment adjustment of punishments to offences , & the expunging of obsolete & innoxuoues ,
and after these some such provitions for universal notoriety notification which as might be made & as here here prposed ,
after all these things , I say, shall be accomplished, & not before, the institution of the Offi
of Prosecutor-General would be a work of signal utility. Into his hands of each on would be con - signed
the conduct of every criminal prosecution ; & through his hands might the expence be defr
The profe emoluments of this office should be ample , correspondant to the [amplitude &] impos
of the Trust : his dignity so exalted, as to place him , if possible out of the reach of the
suspicion of being soften'd in the exercise of his duty by the access of corruption.

A full & solumn Oath or Promise should be devised , hung up in his Office , & to in every Court wherein be
shall have concern, to remind him of and fixon him to his duty : an Adherance difficult
to be secured , which Indolence & Compassion Consciencsciousness of the Invidia of his situation. & sometimes perhaps Interest , will conspire to frus I do not feel myself equal to the or is there here room to trace out with that minuteness which a proper execution of that plan would deem acquire the lines of his duty , nor the expediants to fix him to them


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Identifier: | JB/050/101/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

050

Main Headings

procedure code

Folio number

101

Info in main headings field

certainty public prosecutor

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

cc1

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16092

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