26 Jan y 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Natural

'' Mutual Declarations

3. In regard to the above several sources of evidence personal, real and written he will have it in his power to declare what he knows or believes of the places in which they respectively exist - and where any difficulty presents itself as to the ensuring them to be forthcoming for the purposes of justice, what he knows or believes concerning the nature of it and the means that offer themselves for the removal of it.

4. In regard to all these several facts of the truth of which he is persuaded by evidence other than that of his own personal presumptions, he will have it in his power to declare on in the face of the adversary as well as the Judge, the existence of such persuasion

5. In regard to the applicability /appropriate[ness?]/ of the law relied upon by him as above, he will have it in his power to declare the like persuasion.

6. Each declaration will according to the rules above laid down, be to be made, under the same security for its purity as well from [...?] as from mendacity, as in the case of those /such/ facts,if any, in respect of which his persuasion has his own personal presumption - the evidence of his own senses for the ground of it.