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<head>CERTAINTY. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.</head> | |||
<p>After the due apportionment <add>adjustment</add> of punishments to offences , <del>&</del> the expunging of obsolete & <unclear><sic>innoxuoues</sic></unclear><!-- possibly a mis-spelling of 'innocuous'? --> , | |||
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and after <del>these</del> <add>some such</add> <sic>provitions</sic> for universal <del>notoriety</del> <add>notification</add> <del>which</del> <add>as</add> might be made & as <del>here</del> here <sic>prposed</sic> , | |||
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after <add>all</add> these things , I say, shall be accomplished, & not before, the institution of the <unclear>Offi</unclear><!-- possibly Office, but word is unfinished (runs off the edge of the page and is not finished on the next line --> | |||
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of Prosecutor-General would be a work of <del><gap/></del> <add><unclear>signal</unclear></add> utility. Into his hands <add>of each <unclear>on</unclear><!-- or, one --></add> <del>would</del> be <unclear>con</unclear> <add><gap/> -<!-- ndash written on the line, not mid-line --> signed</add> | |||
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the conduct of every criminal prosecution ; & through his hands might the <sic>expence</sic> be <unclear>defr</unclear> | |||
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The <del>profe</del> <add>emoluments</add> of this office should be ample , correspondant to the [amplitude &] <unclear>impos</unclear> | |||
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of the Trust : <del>his</del> dignity so exalted, as to place him , if possible out of the reach of the | |||
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suspicion of being <sic>soften'd</sic> in the exercise of his duty by the access of corruption. | |||
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<p>A full & solumn Oath <add>or Promise</add> should be devised , hung up in his Office , & <del>to</del> in every Court wherein be | |||
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shall have concern, to remind him of and fix<del>on</del> him <del>to</del> his duty : an Adherance difficult | |||
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to be secured , which Indolence <del>&</del> Compassion <add>Consciencsciousness of the Invidia of his situation.</add> & sometimes perhaps Interest , will conspire to <unclear>frus</unclear> | |||
<note>I do not feel myself equal to the <gap/> or is there here room to trace out with that minuteness which a proper execution of that plan would deem <add>acquire</add> the lines of his duty , nor the expediants to fix him to them</note> | |||
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CERTAINTY. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.
After the due apportionment adjustment of punishments to offences , & the expunging of obsolete & innoxuoues ,
and after these some such provitions for universal notoriety notification which as might be made & as here here prposed ,
after all these things , I say, shall be accomplished, & not before, the institution of the Offi
of Prosecutor-General would be a work of signal utility. Into his hands of each on would be con - signed
the conduct of every criminal prosecution ; & through his hands might the expence be defr
The profe emoluments of this office should be ample , correspondant to the [amplitude &] impos
of the Trust : his dignity so exalted, as to place him , if possible out of the reach of the
suspicion of being soften'd in the exercise of his duty by the access of corruption.
A full & solumn Oath or Promise should be devised , hung up in his Office , & to in every Court wherein be
shall have concern, to remind him of and fixon him to his duty : an Adherance difficult
to be secured , which Indolence & Compassion Consciencsciousness of the Invidia of his situation. & sometimes perhaps Interest , will conspire to frus
I do not feel myself equal to the or is there here room to trace out with that minuteness which a proper execution of that plan would deem acquire the lines of his duty , nor the expediants to fix him to them
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