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"death, but reprieved during.... pleasure, or under Sentence
"or order of Transportation.... to such place of Confinement...
"either at Land or & as His Majesty..... shall from time to
"time appoint under the management of any Overseer or
"Overseers to be appointed by His Majesty...... and every
"Offender.... so removed shall continue in the said place
"of Confinement, or be removed to or confined in any other
"such place or places as aforesaid, as His Majesty......
"from time to time shall appoint until such Offender shall
"be Transported according to Law, or..... be entitled to his
"Liberty or until his Majesty..... shall direct the return
"of such Offender to the Gaol.... from which he shall
"have been so removed. — Then come Powers as of a Gaoler
(S8) Powers of Correction, (S10) and Penalties in case of
Escape (S10).
For my own Part, my own choice would be decided
in favour of which ever of the above Plans if any you
should fix upon, Sir, as capable of being carried into
execution, like other Treasury Business; without being
sent to travel through the Law Offices: a course which
however to my humble conception not one of them need
take. Taught by the experience of so many Years whatever
has that Route to take Hook upon as so compleately out of
my reach, and so perfectly incapable of being defended
upon in point of time, that the least eligible Plan in
other respects would be embraced by me in preference to
what would otherwise be the most eligible were it not
subjected
Identifier: | JB/117/093/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
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correspondence |
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1794 |
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copy of letter at 117-085 to 117-089; not sent; see note 2 to letter 1357, vol. 6 |
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