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Dispensing Power

4. That at any rate on the part of his Under Secretary,
Mr King, by whom the letter, containing the manifestation of
these several illegal pretensions was drawn up, the offence
was—not in any degree the result of a bona fide misconception
or inadvertence — but, wilful, deliberate, and obstinate:—
the repugnance, between the intentions, as declared in such
letter, and the will of Parliament, as declared in the Acts,
on which those intentions were pretended to be grounded—being
a circumstance, of which, from the first to the last, he Mr ..
King was fully conscious: and that this criminal consciousness
is, prima facie at least, to be imputed to the Duke — the
Principal Secretary — by whom the letter was signed; in as
much as, in that letter, he declares in express terms that he
has "examined" the said Acts — and that he "understands the
"object of
" them. —

That besides these offences against the authority of
Parliament — by concurring with the Commissioners of the
Treasury and their Secretaries in giving to the party contracting
with the Treasury, by a letter written after many
months deliberation and conference, an authority for making
preparations for an establishment of double the magnitude,
and consequently double the expence, of that which, by the acceptance
of the original proposal, they stood engaged to give; —
— such authority being given in the express view, of making
use of such necessary enhancement of expence, as a pretence
for the utter "relinquishment" of the whole concern; — the said
concern being thereafter relinquished accordingly — and such
pretence accordingly made use of as a ground and reason
for the relinquishment; — such enhancement so produced
being




Identifier: | JB/116/279/002
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116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

279

Info in main headings field

dispensing power

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

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d3

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Paper Producer

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Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

37812

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