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1 Apr 1802
Dispensing Power

Another stroke of Mr King. To thicken the confusion
he makes the Duke speak of another Act –
a prior one, that of the 19th of the King, the Act
which which established the Hulks and gave powers
for establishing upon its then intended plan, the
National Penitentiary House.

I say it is for confusion's sake and that only
that the prior Act is introduced. That posterior
Acts laws, if there be any jostling, take the place of prior
ones, is the A.B.C. of legislation – the never disputed maxim of common Law and common sense.
The object – the declared object – of this letter was
to find reasons pretences for reducing the physical capacity of the Penitentiary
House as low as possible. ⊞ ⊞ That the Act consigns to limits the number of its Penitentiary Houses. This leaves the number of its Penitentiary House unlimited. That Act consigns to its two Penitentiary Houses no Convicts but transportable ones. This consigns to its consigns to its unlimited number of Penitentiary Houses other Convicts – an assemblage in space as Houses all other Convicts without restriction – that is all Convicts capable of being sent confined as such in a prison. well as numbers alike clear of limitation. Suppose a repugnancy
between the two Acts – suppose no repugnancy
– in either case what use could be made of the prior Act,
consistently with the principles of the principle of law and common sense? The
object of the later Act, the only Act in question being to provide a Penitentiary
House or Penitentiary Houses, without restriction as
to number or capacity, what plea or pretence for
restriction could have been found in any former
Act? What restriction could Parliament then have meant
have meant to put upon a measure not then in contemplation?
if the Old Act had been posterior to the new, then indeed
there might have been a use in looking at speaking of it.

Not that the mention of this irrelevant act is has been altogether without
its use its use, to either of us. Mr King mentions it, in order to create thicken the confusion. I mention it as having been mentioned for that
purpose. He employs it brings it forward as a cloak for mala fides:
I, as an indication of it.

Identifier: | JB/121/437/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	18
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	437	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D6 / F28
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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