21 Decr 1801

Maximum

Mode

Execution

3

a way in which, /in point of/ consistently with the rules of justice and

expediency, (two rules which when putably[?] understood can never disagree) a

man can not /ought not to/ be made a sufferer by the dispensations of the

legislature. The public would indeed in this case have the benefit of his corn:

but it would be only for one crop – and even then it would amount to no more

than the difference between a crop of corn and a crop of something else: and for

this hairs breadth difference, it will see a shock given to that security which

so many other crops look to as their source.