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Introd.y Observat.s
With regard to the first point — viz: the subjecting
the occupations in question to the controul
of a licence, and that a discretionary one, the grounds
upon which in point of reason and precedent
this part of the system appears to rest are stated
in the Paper of Notes
On the footing of precedent the matter stands
thus. The pattern here pursued in the present
case is the case of Alehouse licences: and in
that case the latitude of discretion given is as
ample as possible. No reasons are required to be
given for the refusal of a licence in any instance:
the reasons remain locked up in the breasts of
those to whom the authority is committed. This
latitude has not only been established by the Statute
Law, but recognized in its full and utmost conceivable
extent by judicial decisions. The person class
of persons to whom it is intrusted in the present
case are the same precisely as in that case:
viz: the Justice of the Peace assembled at meetings held for specially for that purpose in and for within the several local <add> territorial divisions that have been carved out for that purpose.</add>
except within the peculiar jurisdiction of the proposed
Board, composed of persons from whom any
improper exercise of the authority seems still less to be
apprehended — for . They are not as in that
case a fluctuating body subject to be garbled by
accident or design, and exposed to the influence of
electioneering and the many other party and personal
influences which are so apt to spring out of the relations of
provincial neighbourhood — but a paramount body
composed of members in a small number and determinate number always the same, — subject acting
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