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force, or had never been in force: as if for instance it was the had been an act of
the Irish Parliament, or any still more foreign Government: The old Act such as that of the
Popes, from whose laws the description of the calendar now in use was taken by our
Executioners in the reform of the state new State. The old Act
furnishes the description introduction of the powers: and the new act finds authority:
for the establishment of the powers so described with reference to the authority for the transferring to the new purpose, the old powers so described.
new purposes. Can it be [Supposing it no longer thought fit
to continue the powers of the old act with reference to the
old Penitentiary powers there in view, how can it be that
it would be to keep it alive merely for the sake of continuing
the of powers in question with reference to the
proposed new ?] The supposition of its being necessary to keep
that the validity of powers meant to be given by the new</del>
Act depended for their validity upon the validity continuance of the old act
the old act alive for the purpose of giving validity to the new
one would might be attended with great inconvenience. It would might then
be necessary for the legislature, on pain of losing the benefit of
the new Act an Act which it approved, to keep the old one perpetually alive, whether the policy of it
in other respects were approved or not, which it had ceased
to approve a good law, to keep alive another which
it deemed a bad one.
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