JB/116/224/001

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23 July 1802
N. S. Wales

From the non-existence of any legal legislative power
coupled with the exercises of it that have taken place
follows a most compleat state of nullity, anarchy and
confusion, the picture of which if full and detailed
would be infinite, and of which the following features are
but specimens.

1. Grants of lands lands property in land appear to have been made in abundance:
all these grants are void: for this power of thus creating
property is that sort of power of which the whole
power of taxation one of the most important branches of legislation) is but a part.

2. Every thing means that have been done there on the
2. Every mans title to that property

2. Every thing that has been done there by the Governor
or any other person exercising any power of government
there in relation to on the occasion of property in movables become
vacant by death. For no such power in their behalf
has been given mediately or immediately by the only
act of Parliament that bears upon New South Wales.

3. Besides what other acts of legislation may have passed
unreported by Captain Collins; of several the principal groupes of
ordinances have been then made exhibited to view under the several
heads of Prevention of scarcity and famine.

Among all these ordinances, if there be any it is only
by accident if in the instance if here and there one
the ordinance or any thing that has been done under it has not been
illegal, and as such punishable under the name of punishment
or important satisfaction or both, on the ground
of immorality or civil injury. For every lash that has
been inflicted, for every infamous privation of liberty by
confinement or forced labour or otherwise that has been sustained for every
pecuniary loss or other loss of property that has been sustained
by

Identifier: | JB/116/224/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	224	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37757
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