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than repeal, was the object, appears from the reasons which
his questionable reading gives a little further on, after he has spoken ofspeaking
the second of the two clafses of convicts - the untransportable
ones: for, these reasons are such as apply with equal force
and efficacy to the first clafs: and are plainly considered
as applying alike to both.
What then are the persons thus excepted by Duke
out of the persons of this first clafs (transportable Convicts)
destined for the Penitentiary Establishment by Parliament ?
They are neither more nor fewer than all "such transportable
"convicts as the several questionable reading of the respective Counties "can "con
tain from the time of their receiving sentence till an oppor-
tunity may offer for their being transported". All these per-
sons whom the Secretary of State is so determined to except,
Parliament without any exception authorizes the judicial autho-
rity "the Court" in each case to consign in any number to
the Penitentiary House or Houses "to be evicted as soon as conve
niently may be" requiring of course that same authority to consign them, either to that same establishment or the Hulk establishment already
instituted by Parliament for this clafs of Convicts: and by this
Act neither requiring, nor so much as authorizing the Court
or the Duke or any body to consign a single on of these
Convicts to any of theseadded text County questionable reading. All these persons
the Duke, with this Act before his eyes, determines-declares at least his determination - to consign to these County questionable reading
and not to suffer a single one of them to be consigned either
to the Penitentiary system, which, though Parliamentary had so long
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