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1823 Novr 2
Penal Code

By recordation of appropriate publicity, by these instruments
alone if these were all, might the adjustment be made
with extraordinary nicety: but of recordation springs in the
first place, publicity & that to a degree extent required: then
again and without any fresh operation, permanence and this
naturally if not necessarily to the extent of perpetuity.

From, out of the habits of the times & without any thing
done by the Legislature to give it strength or direction, punishment
in this shape takes place, and is not by any means without
its effect: it has even the advantage, an inestimable one
it is, of reaching those who being authors & masters of the laws
have succeeded in placing their misdeeds out of the power of the
laws.

Still however its power & thence it's usefulness is as yet inconsiderable
in comparison with what it might be made by means
of an institution by much too simple & thence if tried too effectual
not to be scoffed at by those whose interest it is, that the misdeeds
of the ruling & influential few should remain if possible
for ever unpunished & unrepressed.

Conceive a sort of Register bearing some such title as
that of the Book of Disrepute. In this book might be chapters in
any number, chapters headed by the names of the several genera
and species of offences in relation to which any use could
be found for distinguishing one from another, for regarding them
respectively in a different point of view.

Follow for example a few of these chapters: or its as it might
perhaps be better to call them Books.

1. The murderer's book or the Book of Murder
2. The manslayer's book The peculators book
3. The perjurer's book
4. The swindler's book
5. The lying defamer's book
6. The fraudulent Insolvent's book

The above may serve and be sufficient as rough samples; for
giving them requisite accuracy the present state of the science and its
nomenclature does not as yet afford the necessary means.
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Identifier: | JB/068/288/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1823-11-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22483
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