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[Copyist's hand]
1818 July 30
Parl. Ref Bill
Reasons
II. Electors who
Universality
Property bad qualification
Reading better
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So much as to appropriate probity - now as to appropriate intellectual aptitude.
That reading goes to this point and that in the most direct /immediate/ way is altogether Manifest. That if at all it is only in an unimmediate way that property tends to this same point is equally manifest.
So likewise to Householdership this same observation will be seen to apply with equal truth.
So likewise to payment of Taxes.
What is more, only through the medium of reading can the tendency on question exert itself in the instance of any one of those supposed securities for appropriate intellectual aptitude.
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