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23 Decr 1810
Prizes Acts 1805 1809

A Table should have been made of the seats of those several officers &c
Deputies a burthen to draughtsmen as well as to County
Need of a general provision

Sea voyages are liable exposed to uncertainties: and accordingly having
in the interval course of the four years between the two Acts gained made possession
of this truth, in 1809 the legislator sets to work and
doubles the number of copiesto be transmitted to the each Greenwich
of the two Treasurers Hospital and the Navy Office employing for that purpose
two successive ships, adding at the same time
one for the a Deputy whom it seems he is sure of finding appointed for the purpose by the the treasurer of
Greenwich Hospital and resident on the spot.

To In this improvement momentous addition no fewer than
75 lines are occupied: 75 long lines in the
course of which
substituting for the business of transmission, in if no default
of a Custom House Officer be forthcoming in the plan of distribution as above, a Registrar of
the Vice Admiralty Court, and if no such Registrar
the principal Civil Officer, the mention of the word civil being among
the amendments now performed.

Sect. 76. So numerous and so heavy are the coach loads of official
persons, principals and deputies, principals and substitutes preferable regular and makeshift
principals and deputies, not to mention the cart loads of newspapers
taken together, that the draughtsman of 1809 has had taken
upon him to dispose of lay in their place at once an effort set to without taking
breath that at the 80th line of this 73d Section he found finds himself his powers faculties exhausted,
obliged to give lay down the pen: and after giving refreshing
himself wake a little by the performance of lighter work in two proceeding sections, it is not till the 76th that he returns regains
to the charge having a has regained strength enough
to return to the charge, and compleat the subject business of notifications, by at the expence of 21 lines more annexing the sanctionative part of the his law to
the directive part of the law, at the expence of 21 lines more to the sanctionative part: for neglect or refusal, penalty, on the Agent
any thing not exceeding one hundred pounds on the official
person, viz. the Collector with his £500.

Identifier: | JB/547/307/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
Date_1	1810-12-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	547	Main Headings
Folio number	307	Info in main headings field	Prizes. Acts 1805 x 1809
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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