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is scarcely or not at all susceptible of being ascertained
for the purposes of penal or coercive
law, though at the same time not altogether unsusceptible
of being ascertained for the purpose of exposing
a man to the cannon of public opinion the world at large.
At some time attempts (though none of the happiest) appear now then to have been
made to give something like the p

While thus employd, an oath of
office may be
regarded as a
most useful and
irreplaceable supplement to penal
regulations
its use and efficiency may
be of the first importance & be considerably of it may serve at once
as a guide to discretion, as a check upon personal private
interest and affection, and as a buckler against
external sollicitation. Examples referable to the The following is a kind of <add>may serve as an
matter in hand <add>example some of the purposes to which it might be applied in
the present instance. Abjuration of personal interest
and favour in the choice of subordinates - promise
to have regard to active and intellectual
fitness, as well as to moral innocence. Abjuration
of ill will on the one hand, and personal
kindness and favour and external influence and
sollicitation on the other on questions relative to the punishment
or discipline of a subordinate - Abjuration of
considerations of both kinds - personal favour as well as
personal enmity, on questions relative to the granting or refusal
or refusing licenses.

At one time, attempts (though none of them happiest) appear to have been now and then
made to give something
like the particular
sort of bearing here
spoken of, to Oaths
of office: but, of late
Oaths years, all such
curious labour seems
to have been given up:
and when an Oath of
office has been put in,
it has been copied, mutandtatis
mutandis from
an Oath of the nugatory
cast, as a matter of course
and stuffed into the Act, to
match with other surplusage.

Should an oath of the serviceable cast, kind
an oath on any such plan as the above be ever at any time thought fit
to be called for, on the present occasion, in reg for the use of the proposed Office, the responsibility
will not be shrunk from, nor the trouble
grudged: but at the present conjunction, the season
for such a production of that sort seems in danger
of being premature: the business of the Board
must shou first be fully settled and marked out, before an
Oath of office can be properly shaped to it.

Identifier: | JB/150/474/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	37 continued
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	474	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / f46
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50695
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