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2)

But in printing, the case is very different: there is no room for
interpolation by design: they may therefore be received in the character as well of evidence as of guides the compositor has one form for each letter
& another form equally distinguishable & equally decided for each
point: & the most simple point is inserted in consequence of as settled a a premeditation,
as the most complex Letter.

They may here therefore be received in the character as well of evidence
as of guides.

When Upon the whole we see, that in Manuscript, Puntuation is deficient
only in one out of two purposes, & even for that, Impression is a cure. & Printing is a cure for it cures even in
that.

From these considerations, (to mark it by the way) we may know learn what
to think, of the Idea of the superior sanctity of the Manuscript to the Printed
of the distinction betwixt Public & Private Acts, which requires
those of the latter denomination to be fetched down at an unnecessary
expence & trouble to serve as evidence, when of when, of the former,
the printed copy is admitted for the same purpose: of the
clauses with which for the sake of remedying that and another one other inconvenience
the Statute Book is incumber'd in such abundance
for making of these Acts Public ones in Name which in fact
are of a private nature.

1 As the characters of Letter-press are in form more determinate
than those of the best Penman, on this account they are incomparably
better suited to constitute the standard of authenticity & Penmanship among good proficients is susceptible of variation
than the latter: 2d as it is naturally more durable, they
are so on another account: 3.d as incapable of erasure, they
are so in a third account: 4.thly as they are more easily revisable,
on a fourth account.

Objections or Exceptions There are but two objections to the preference of Letter-press in
any case: the one is the expence of it in such when the Instruments as
are designed not to be multiplied, tho even this may not be decisive when
in such as are short or of an important nature; the other puts
such parts of an Instrument, as are exclusively characteristic
of a certain individual agent: author + + energizer I mean men's signatures.

N. B Whatever care is bestowed in about the revising of the engrossed original it is after all not that but the printed copy from which the subject takes his direction the printed Copy therefore requires demands a repetition of the same care: which makes double trouble, without use. A Printed Copy of an Act of Parliament, signed by the Speaker
on each page, would answer the purpose of an original
much better than a Manuscript.

Standing precedents, like forms of convictions prescribed in Acts
of Parliament, with blanks to be variously filled up might be required to be
filled up in Letter-press: and might may be then be expressed always
by figures instead of words at length. Sums & Dates in

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Identifier: | JB/070/086/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field	composit. st. perspicuity. mechanical helps to. pointing printing fitter for a standard than ms. numberment of divisions. cyphers
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a2
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23201
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