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Observations on §. 3.
This power of examining on oath seems indispensable
[to the due execution of the functions committed
to the Board.]
Persons subjected who have incurred
forfeitures or other penalties, and more especially
persons whose licence has been forfeited or appears in
danger of being forfeited, will be applying to the Board
with excuses: if the means ordinarily employd for
the securing of veracity in occa judicial and other
important occasions be not employd here, falsehood
will reign without controul, and while the audacious
escape by that means the fate they merit, the consideration
under favour by reason of the general prejudice prepossession thus
produced by the knowledge of the want of so necessary a check
exerted will fail of obtaining the credit which is their
due.
As far as persons standing in this predicament are
the only persons concerned, the power of examination upon oath may without inconvenience be left to
depend upon
the consent of the party
to be examined: may since the hope of exempting
himself from the penalty will be his inducement,
and that an adequate one for submitting to the
examination. But this will not always apply
to the case of witnesses, especially to witnesses
on the accusing side.
The necessity of such a power will be the more
particularly apparent, if (as proposed by the Committee)
the Superintendence of Aliens should make
a part of the business of this Board. It would be a
sad incongruity, if matters of such importance as the
security
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admiral pavel chichagov |
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