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S.10. To name the proper amount of the Compensation-
-Money, belongs, under the particular circumstances of this
case,— not to the Claimant, but to the Arbitrators—

It may now perhaps be expected as a thing of course, that I
should name the sum which, under the Act of Parliament, all circumstances
taken into account, I look upon as my due.

This is however a task, from which in no particular a case
as the present. I hope to stand excused. It could not answer any purpose.
The sum which to my Arbitrators will have seemed the proper one,
not any sum proposed by me as the proper one, is the sum which they
will award. What is the proper one, is a judgment which they are
altogether as well able to pronounce without having before them
a sum proposed by myself as with it. No data have I which they
have not.

Yes: if as in the case of Profrs Cowie and Chalmers above mentioned
an application had now been to be made to Parliament: to state
a specific sum as the sum petitioned for, might perhaps in that case
have been necessary. But now, in virtue of the Act of Parliament
already passed, Arbitrators are already named. Named? and to what
purpose but to name the sum? For, if any award be made, to name
the sum is what they will have to do at any rate, in every case but
that of their acceding without variation, to the precise sum named,
supposing any such sum named, by me.

To the purpose of my person, to whom either


nomination would be of no small use. Be the grounds ever so good,
the sum so named by me would spread itself every where (for in this
transaction I know of nothing that either can, or ought to be )
without any of these grounds for its support. If to my arbitrators, the sum

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	472	Info in main headings field
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Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
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Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
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