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13 Inseranda
Observations
VI Miscellaneous
§.45
Anonymous
In the third place, even if it were proposed ,(which it is not) that
what in the case of State Offences the board as
such were to take exert any active exercise of power an active part in consequence
of any such information so received, the individual,
at the expence of whose liberty such
power came to be exercised would not have
more, but on the contrary would have less than
ground for apprehension than he has at present.
Were the Board to act in any such
way in consequence of any such information
to all in any such way — to come to the point
were it to issue warrants, the effect and only effect the change
would be — that so far as it acted in this way.
So far what was done in this way would instead
of being done by some or under the authority of
some single person, such as a Secretary of
State Chief Justice an ordinary Justice of the
Peace, a Secretary of State as an Under
Secretary of State (which two latter offices if
they acted in any such way could no otherwise
act than as being no other quality Justices of the Peace) would
be done by a Board composed of five or three at least or whatever
might be the made the quorum of members for this purpose.
Where then would lie the difference? — In this. —
In the breast of a single person, if not sufficiently
upon his guard, false information thus convey'd
might be apt to ferment and infuse into his
mind prejudices against some unblemished cha
racter
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