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1818 July 8
Parl. Ref. Bill

Reasons
VIII Election Districts
Sec. 2. One Seat to a District

1

1
Question.
In each District, Members
why not more
than one?

2
Answer — Attendance
supposed any greater
number could not sufficiently
be accommodated.

Question 2. Number of Representatives to each District
why not more than one.

Reasons

Reason 1. At one to a District, the number is already
so great, that, under any system, other than of that of general power
without obligation non-attendance as at present, [it would be productive
of sensible inconvenience.] it would not be wholly
unattended with unproductive of sensible inconvenience. What if instead
of 658 it were 1316?

Reason 2. Suppose the numbers of districts doubled, the Members the same as
at present, to wit 658, and, at the same time, as is mostly the
case at present, two
Members allowed to
each District, the
several districts would must
thus at an average
whole mass of inconvenience produced by distance, viz
expence of journey to and fro, and dis would be

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Identifier: | JB/104/436/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1818-07-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	436	Info in main headings field	parl. ref. bill
Image	002	Titles	question 2. number of representatives to each district, why not more than one
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