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Preface.

was the occasion, and what can be the use, of the ensuing
sheets? Why publish them? - I answer - because the Bill
itself is in fact not published: [a] because were it published,
the contents of it are not quite so perspicuous as
I imagined they might be made: because I hoped to be
a means in some degree of forwarding the good purposes
of it, by stating to the public more in detail than it
would have been competent either to the text or to the
preface to have done, the reasons on which the leading
provisions in it seem'd to be grounded, and by suggesting
a few hints in the way of correction or addition.

"Not quite so perspicuous as it might be made?"
(I think I hear somebody exclaiming) "what Act of
" Parliament was ever more so?" — None I must confess
that I can think of: but this affords me no
reason for retracting. The Legislation one would/wou'd indeed
naturally suppose might ( and if he might he ought should)
speak his own meaning so plainly that no one could
speak it plainer; so concisely, that no one could render
his expression more concise; in such a method, (both
as to matter & form) that no one could cast it into
a better. He might one should think: for what should

NOTE:

[a] I mean in the sense ordinarily put upon the word
published. It is not sold at any of the Shops. It
has no Bookseller's or Printer's name. It seems to have
been design'd for the perusal not of the world at large,
but only of the Members of Parliament, & of the Author's
private friends.

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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field	preface a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39519
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