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cases be intolerable to the public; if not, to the individual.
Four of them then are to be for a large Town: City: not fewer
for the smallest Parish.

If they are paid any thing, they in the City at least must be paid a sufficiency
for their maintenance: for they will be continually
upon duty or liable to be called upon duty at a minute's warning,
it will be impossible for them to carry on any business
of their own. That they may make the better checks
to a professional man it seems to be the design seems
to be that they shall not be professional men. [They are
to be of the materials that our common Jury men are made
of, Shop-keepers and Farmers.] Men of talents intellectual requirements sufficient
to sit by the Judge's side but not sufficient ever to take
his place. What is the consequence? That here you
get the burthen of an increased establishment without
the benefit.

I see infinite embarassment and delay in the 6th
article. They can have no certain hours days nor
hours of sitting. The Judge has a pair of them them to hunt for,
as occasion draws him into their neighbourhood. The
notice of his apparent footsteps raise an alarm among
the Good-men-and true of every Parish he comes near.
The moment he is known to bind his course toward any
Parish the Good-men-and-true take the alarm. They One man




Identifier: | JB/051/237/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

4-5

Box

051

Main Headings

evidence; procedure code

Folio number

237

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

benjamin constant

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16402

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