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certain purposes the two Parishes have been united by by Act of Parliament,
yet to other purposes they remain distinct, and as such are
accordingly mentioned in another part of the said paper. Moreover
the Parish of Saint John is the only one of the said two Parishes
that has a Rector; the Parish of Saint Margaret having neither
Rector nor Vicar (nor other Person (I believe) to whom Tithes are
paid (and to whom compensation might accordingly be due in that
quality) but only a perpetual Curate: which being the case, there
exists not any Person who would be found to come under the description
of the "Rector of the Parish of Saint Margaret" as therein mentioned.
I therefor take the Liberty of submitting to you, whether in
the tenor of any such notice as may come to be delivered (if any
remain to be delivered) for the said purpose, it may not, in place
of the words "the Rector and Vestrymen for the time being of the
"Parish of Saint Margaret and Saint John" be advisable to substitute
some such words as the following, viz: "the Rector of the Parish
"of the Parish of Saint John, the Vestrymen of the united Vestry
"in and for the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John, both
in the City of Westminster." —

I should hope indeed, that on a Parliamentary proceeding
of the sort in question, any such in point of form, as those
above indicated, would not be attended with any fatal consequence:
and that the only question in such a case would be whether the
notice were so expressed and delivered, that information of what
was intended to be done might reasonably be presumed to have
been conveyed to the minds of the several Parties interested, in
such manner as might be sufficient for their guidance. But, not
being competent on my own part, to decide, to what degree strict
precision might in such a case prove necessary, it seemed to me
the safer, and at any rate an unexceptionable course, so to word
the notice, as that the terms of it might be conformable to the real state
of the state of the case. —

Another alteration I would beg leave to suggest, consists
in the inserting, instead of the concluding words " to divide allott and

Identifier: | JB/117/102/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	mr bentham to mr white, in reply
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter 1368, vol. 6	ID Number	39054015
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