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apt to fall, he were to hear, that, by virtue of some
conversation that may have passed, between gentle-
-men expressing themselves dissatisfied with the sub-
-sisting choice on one part, and gentlemen in Ad-
-ministration & in Parliament on the other, it should
have been conceived, that the faith of Administration
stood pledged to revoke the choice. Nor would such
a supposition altogether want colour from an inci-
-dent in the history of the Act, an incident of which
it bears marks upon the face of it. The act origi-
-nating solely out of the treaty with your Memori-
-alist, the purview of the Bill, as it was first drawn,
was accordingly confined on this head, as your Me-
-morialist admitts, to the individual spot in quest-
-ion. What he has been informed of and also ad-
-mitts is, that the optional clause, now standing
part of the Act, and above referred to, was inserted
before the bringing in of the Bill, inserted conse-
-quently by, or by order of, gentlemen in administrati-
-on, and that too at the suggestion of gentlemen
whose declared wish it was that the option might be
made use of for some other choice. Admitting the
facts, your Memorialist begs leave utterly to deny
the influence. Had any such engagement been enter-
-ed into, how would the Act have stood? Every
thing that related to the spot in question would have

Identifier: | JB/118/094/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39148
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