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11 Apr. 1802
Dispensing Power
The point there is – or at least for aught I know
may be found to be – in this curious letter, which unless
at first sight, and until properly explained may might form to appearance
by for the most best plausible excuse covering for the criminal
doctrines maintained, and the criminal designs betrayed
by it. The do
The document My copy Your Lordship may remember
is not a compleat one, though correct as far as
it goes, some lines, according to the statement made
in the place were left out of it. In these omitted
lines I should expect to find a specification
of the number recommended to be taken as the
if the standard of magnitude of for the Penitentiary
House: viz: the number of the prisoners for which
provision was to be made in it: and this number
I am inclined to think would upon examination turn out to be
2150. On this head I do not pretend to speak
with certainty: nor is it at all material that
I should. Whether there be any such number
specified, or whether there be not, is to me, and to the main argument a matter
of mere presu compleat indifference. If there be
no such large number specified, then the topic ground
of exculpation deduced from it facts: if the that or
any such large number specified, then comes the
answer which I am about to give to it.
Identifier: | JB/121/468/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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