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And whereas all manner of crimes might be
committed and injuries inflicted with impunity by and upon
the members of the said supplemental Metasylum or Post-liberation establishment,
if in all cases their testimony were known to be refuted
or incompetent inadmissible, be it enacted that upon the discharge
of any prisoner the Governor may give grant him
a certificate under the name of a Recredential
Certificate, and the testimony of the person in whose favour such
certificate shall have been granted shall thereupon
be competent thereupon be removed as competent,
in the same manner as if he had never been convicted
of any felony or other infamous crime, any
rule of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
On testimony of any felon who
upon the con reception of any felon convict into
or other convict into the Panopticon Penitentiary-House
and for ever afterwards his testimony shall
in all cases be held admiss to be competent and
admissible (saving such observations with regard
to his credibility as the particular circumstances of his offence
and character may warrant) any law or rule or notion
of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
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