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23 July  1802 
 N. S. Wales 
From the non-existence of any legal legislative power 
coupled with the exercises of it that have taken place 
 follows a most compleat state of nullity, anarchy and 
confusion, the picture of which if full and detailed 
 would be infinite, and of which the following features are 
but specimens.
1. Grants of lands lands property in land appear to have been made in abundance: 
all these grants are void: for this power of thus creating
 property is that sort of power of which the whole 
power of taxation one of the most important branches of legislation) is but a part. 
2. Every thing means that have been done there on the
 2. Every mans title to that property 
 
 2. Every thing that has been done there by the Governor
 or any other person exercising any power of government 
there in relation to on the occasion of property in movables become 
vacant by death. For no such power in their behalf
 has been given mediately or immediately by the only
 act of Parliament that bears upon New South Wales.
3. Besides what other acts of legislation may have passed
 unreported by Captain Collins; of several the principal groupes of 
ordinances have been then made exhibited to view under the several 
heads of Prevention of scarcity and famine.
Among all these ordinances, if there be any it is only
 by accident if in the instance if here and there one
 the ordinance or any thing that has been done under it has not been
 illegal, and as such punishable under the name of punishment 
or important satisfaction or both, on the ground
 of immorality or civil injury. For every lash that has
 been inflicted, for every infamous privation of liberty by 
confinement or forced labour or otherwise that has been sustained for every
 pecuniary loss or other loss of property that has been sustained
 by 
| Identifier: | JB/116/224/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. | |||
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| 1802-07-23 | |||
| 116 | panopticon versus new south wales | ||
| 224 | n. s. wales | ||
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| text sheet | 1 | ||
| recto | e1 | ||
| jeremy bentham | |||
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