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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
