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Preface.

was the occasion, and what can be the use, of the ensuing
sheets? Why publish them? - I answer - because the Bill
itself is in fact not published: [a} because were it pub-
-lished, the contents of it are not quite so perspicuous as
I imagined they might be made: because I hoped to be
a means in some degree of forwarding the good purposes
of it, by stating to the public more in detail than it
would have been competent/compitent either to the text or to the
preface to have done, the reasons on which the leading
provisions in it seem'd to be grounded, and by sug-
-gesting a few hints in the way of connection or addition.
"Not quite so perspicuous as it might be made?"
(I think I hear somebody exclaiming) "what Act of
" Parliament was ever more so?" — None I must con-
-fess that I can think of: but this affords me no
reason for retracting. The Legislation one would indeed
naturally supposed might ( and if he might he ought should
speak his own meaning so plainly that no one could
speak it plainer; so concisely, that no one could render
his expression more concise; in such a method, (both
as to matter & form) that no one could cast it into a letter/better/bitter. He might one should think: for what should

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field	preface a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39519
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