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1826 Aug.23
Review of Humphreys
Conclusion
§ Adopt without amendmt
§. On an understanding of respective revision, adopt H's plan
without amendment
I should now be able to forgive myself, if I knew
myself to have been thean instrument of retardation to Mr H.s
plan for so much as a single . What The arrangement
that of it depended on me should take place would
accordingly be Mr his plan to be in the first instance adopted
and made law in the form which he would have given to it
r at the same time the declared desire of its being taken
throughout by the earliest opportunity for the subject of revision
on which, his being the in one side the h, on the other
side the notion respectability, I would willingly put submitt to his
consideration be ready I hearing such proposed amendments of my suggestion as in this
rapid course of proceeding I might be able to suggest
The points in relation to which the closest and most
anxious attention would be requisite would be - all those affecting
existing interests : that so far as the nature of the case allowed
no perniciously retroactive effects might be produced - in
reasonably entertained expectation defeated: defeated
as thos on so vast a multitude of instances this always
have been, and so long petitions and Judge-made law in that minimal measure
instances on the throne, must ever be
With or even without the of any effective
which in this was I might be able to render what I could
venture to propose is that in the understanding that when all the safeguards that
could be provided for the purpose have been employed the
Code should without an discussion as to the details should
receive the force of law: for but for this security all individual
who respectively had each of his sinister interest in any one part would
combine, and with or without concert cooperate in keeping it become been bred of the subject
and brought to regard
the understanding as an
impracticable one
H out'
in the impact, product is given by discussion after discussion, deteriorated
by amendment and after amendment, tell those enemies of
the country and mankind by whom it then may have been assented
should be satisfied that by these practices, public at large had
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