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Observations

V. Procedure
§ 40
§ 94
Judicial Cognizance

since Within these the City liberties, no person can be
invested with the powers of a Justice of the Peace
by the Crown, nor without an Act of Parliament.
Practically speaking, it may be added not by with
an Act of Parliament. It was the attempt
to do this amongst other things by the Police
Bill of 1785, that by the opposition it excited contributed perhaps more perhaps than
every thing else put together, to the opposition
by which that Bill was laid upon the shelf.
But what is impracticable under one name
may become not only practicable but easy
under another. [+]To have the appointed The of appointment appointing[+] of a [+] and for this liberties by any authority different from the
[+] To have made provision for the appointing in and for those and almost sacred liberties, and by any authority other than the existing and old-established authority,
a set of Officers under the name of Justice of
the Peace
, and with all the various powers of
Justices of the Peace, would have been repugnant
to the Chartered rights of the City,
and without any support from precedent.
The appointing of a set of Commissioners
for granting licences, and giving to the same
Commissioners judicial authority
confined to this limited and narrow branch of
delinquency, is no such violation of chartered
rights, and is supported with (as we have
seen) by divers more precedents than one.

The reforms given in the text of the
Bill to the case of the Excise is accordingly
given — not for the purpose of explanation (for
the truth is there is nothing for it to explain) but for
the purpose of recommendation: that the part of the
plan may be sure to have precedent for its sanction, [+] [+] to have been and share as if copied rather than contrived.
As

[+] as it were if As


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94

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150

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police bill

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559

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001

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1

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recto

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d8 / f135

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jeremy bentham

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jeremy bentham

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