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33 C Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment
sum. As where a quantity of gunpowder or of water is
embezzled or destroyed at the time of a seige although it
be in the possession of a private person for want of
which the town is taken or destroyed.
Or as if in a small island at a great distance from
any other Land. such as S.t Helena in the Pacific Ocean
an intermitting fever rages and a great proportion of the
whole quantity of Peruvian bask there is on the island being
stored up in a certain place is destroyed
Reasons These provisors for estimating the damage that may
occasionally caused by any of the species of delinquency here
in question may seem to be carried to too great a degree
of minuteness. But nothing less seems necessary in order
to make sure what certainly ought if possible to be made
sure that in no case the wicked man guilty man try may
be left to triumph in his wickedness guilt. The punishment here
appointed for these offences, which upon the whole is much —
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