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PARDON.
| Qu. carefully if there be any more.
|5. foundations to be respectively set forth in the Instrument.
+ Qu. whether any other power ought to be allowed than that of granting 3 times for instance a new Trial.
1 The Insurance absolute or relative of the person connected + - of absolute,to be specified relative to and
the Questions submitted to the Jury.
2nd. Merit of the criminal exemplified on some particular & extraordinary occas.
the History to be set forth
Partial pardon for an account of peculiar merit displaying in the obnoxious transaction.
3rd The service of turning evidence against an accomplice. Qu. is this before
4. Number of the Criminals — This before prosecution.
|| This should in third 3rd
5th || A particular service at large [specified] to be performed as a condition by the Criminal
Change of punishment to be put on the same footing with absolute pardon
To reduce Chancery to a System
No traverse to be allowed of the allegations whereon the Pardon is founded
If the allegations are not sufficiently special - the Court to certify in what
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particulars it is deficient in that respect - respiting execution or a time like
3 months not to exceed 6 months during which time the Criminal to be in custody or out
upon Bail as the case imports - If the Pardon be not amended within that
time Execution to be awarded.
The stating of the foundation sufficiently special if the fact be stated, without
Evidence - [Decisions on this head not to be preserved & cited - ced Qu?]
All proceedings relative to the Pardon to be entered on the Record.
None of these except the 4th will detract from the opinion of the Certainty of
Punishment
It is evident that every improvement in Jurisprudence must be compassed at the
expense of Prerogative original or communicated, by subjecting that to exercise of power settled Rule
which before was arbitrary.
To allow a traverse to be tried by a Jury would be to render it ineffectual for in one case the
it consists in putting a negative upon what a Jury has already found, in the
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