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Even the introductory words inserted for the purpose<add><gap/> the vine</add> <note><!-- Pencil note -->15 continued</note><lb/> | Even the introductory words inserted for the purpose<add><gap/> the vine</add> <note><!-- Pencil note -->15 continued</note><lb/> | ||
of indicating the authority on which the Bill is issued<lb/> | |||
are of a nature more likely to excite doubt and<lb/> | |||
difficulty in an unharmed mind that it is in the<lb/> | |||
mind of the bulk of readers than to command<lb/> | |||
confidence. By an Act of Parliament Tricesimo<lb/> | |||
quarto Geo: 3<hi rend="superscript">tii</hi> Regis For raising a certain sum of<lb/> | |||
money by Loans or Exchequer Bills <del><gap/></del> for the service<lb/> | |||
of the year 1794. In this <add>formidable</add> mixture of English and<lb/> | |||
Latin interlarded with terms of art and expressions<add>the language</add><lb/> | |||
of finance a man is sent to an ACt of Parliament<lb/> | |||
to know whether <del><gap/> and who and how</del> the Bill will<lb/> | |||
be paid or no, and if so when and how <del>or</del> and by<lb/> | |||
whom it will be paid, the rather as <add>in</add> the Bill itself<lb/> | |||
no answer to any of these questions as to be found | |||
and upon his putting a right construction upon<lb/> | |||
an Exclusive<add>a Revenue</add> Act of Parliament In<lb/> who perhaps<lb/> | |||
never read an Act of Parliament in his life<lb/> | |||
and <add>almost</add> certainly (if not a Lawyer) is not in the habit<lb/> | |||
of trusting himself to find out the sense of an Act<lb/> | |||
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29 Causes &c
Even the introductory words inserted for the purpose the vine 15 continued
of indicating the authority on which the Bill is issued
are of a nature more likely to excite doubt and
difficulty in an unharmed mind that it is in the
mind of the bulk of readers than to command
confidence. By an Act of Parliament Tricesimo
quarto Geo: 3tii Regis For raising a certain sum of
money by Loans or Exchequer Bills for the service
of the year 1794. In this formidable mixture of English and
Latin interlarded with terms of art and expressionsthe language
of finance a man is sent to an ACt of Parliament
to know whether and who and how the Bill will
be paid or no, and if so when and how or and by
whom it will be paid, the rather as in the Bill itself
no answer to any of these questions as to be found
and upon his putting a right construction upon
an Exclusivea Revenue Act of Parliament In
who perhaps
never read an Act of Parliament in his life
and almost certainly (if not a Lawyer) is not in the habit
of trusting himself to find out the sense of an Act
