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21 Decr 1810
Prize Acts 1805 1809 §. 5
To the continuation of Raffhead's edition of the Statutes
is another person to whom this mystery seems also to have presented itself
as equally inexplicable. In the margin of §. 75, see (says he)
§. 80: i.e. compare them together, and consider whether
change from three months can have been
any other than an oversight. When he required the
payment to Greenwich Hospital to Captors to be suspended
at the conclusion on the day day of the three months after the
day of its commencement, he intended that his intention was to fix upon
that same day for the payment of the residuum to
Greenwich Hospital to which the business continuation
of the process of payment viz. to the Captors was meant
to be transferred. When afterwards for the payment of the residuum to the Hospital he fixt upon the last
day of the four months it seemed to him that he
had fixt upon the same day for discontinuing the
payments made directly into the hands of captors. payment to the captors own hand.
Of nugatory reasons he has scattered up and
down this Act of his a copious stock: nor whatsoever
may be the practice of Parliament is there any
Act of Parliament prohibiting the inserting into Acts
or bills any reasons that are other than nugatory
ones. How rare soever, if instruction reasons it
cannot be said that in Acts of Parliament they are altogether without precedents.
Here surely if this were any thing but
an oversight – here surely if anywhere, would have
been a case in which the following pursuing of such precedents
would have had its use.
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