JB/095/064/001

Click Here To Edit

ART. I. Whereas mischiefs have arisen from the intermedling
of mean persons in Turnpike Trusts;
No person, on pain of £50 to the infomer, shall
act as Trustee under any Turnpike Act whereby no qualification is required until
he hath taken and subscribed an Oath of Qualification
after one of the forms ensuing; beginning with "I" (mentioning his name) "do
sincerely swear that" and ending with "So help
me God."

1. I am in the enjoyment of a real estate
of the clear yearly value of £40

2. I am Heir apparent (as I believe) to C.
D. (mentioning the name) who is (as I believe)
in the enjoyment of a real estate [settled or
descendible on me, of the clear deleted text yearly
of £80 OR

I am in the enjoyment of personal, [or real
and personal] estate ][together] of the clear value
of £800 OR

[I am Heir apparent (as I believe) to C. D,
(mentioning the name) who is (as I believe) in
the enjoyment of real estate, settled or descendible
on me, of the clear yearly value of £40;
and also am myself in the enjoyment of personal, or real and personal, estate together of
the clear value of £400.]

ART. II. By real estate is meant rents or other profits
issuing out of Lands Tuthes Offices or Franchises :
by personal, any other kind of property
besides.

ART. III For taking any such Oath without being qualified
in the manner therein described, the
penalty shall be the same.

ART. IV The Proof of the taking the Oath, or of posessing
the Qualification, as the case is, shall
lie upon a Defendant : the Informer proving
only the Defendant's having acted as a Trustee.

Observations. This section, in order to justify the several
additions retrenchments and alterations that

---page break---

Observations continued. are here made in it, together with others that will be propos'd,
will necessarily draw on a number of observations; many
others that naturally presented themselves have been suppressed,
since it is necessary this essay should have it's limits.
To take it, in the 1st place in a general view deleted text deleted text,
Upon taking a general view we may observe int he first place
that the Qualification besides being described in the
Oath, is described before in the enacting part; which is tautology :
and it is described differently; which is confusion.

Identifier: | JB/095/064/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 95.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	095	Main Headings
Folio number	064	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	observations continued
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	30950
Box Contents