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have been struck out. Instead of that, how does it
stand? What relates to the spot in question retains
the foremost place in the Act and occupies the greatest
part of it: even a copy of the verdict of the Jury,
introduced for the purpose of ascertaining the parcels,
keeps its place in the preamble. Meaning to preclude
your Lordships from fixing upon this spot,
would Administration have offered it in the name
of Parliament to your Lordships choice? made it the standard of comparisons — offered
it with distinction and with marks of preference?
would the public have been told, would your Memorialist
have been told, upon the faith of Parliament,
that your Lordships were left at liberty to adhere
to the choice, when in fact your hands have
been laid? A transaction of this sort would have
been a fraud upon Parliament, a fraud upon
your Memorialist, and to what purpose?

On the other hand, does the construction your
Memorialist humbly contends for, render the operation
nugatory? — By no means. It would not
only have had its operation, but had it an operation
conformable to the views of gentlemen who propsed it,
if it had so happened, that any other spot could
have been found, which proved equally "convenient
"& proper," as well as in the eyes of your Lordships, confining
your views to the public service, as in
those of your Memorialist. — you suppose (was
the

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Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	39148
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