10 Feb y 1808

Power sec

high [...?] Want of powers

If in the above observation there be any propriety, in the present instance the application of them is but too obvious and irrecusable /irrecusible[?]/.

There is the occasion in which for the support of their authority, the Commissioners are not furnished with so much as the shadow of coercive power: this is, where besides advice to be given /arrangements to be proposed/, there are facts, boundess in variety and number, to be learnt: "full enquiries to be made relative to the whole course of procedure, including everything /whatsoever/ that is usually done or has soever[?] been done by lawyers of both chapter, efficient and professional, in all [...?]; as may be seen in detail in the

│ │ of those [...?]:- full enquiries! well - and what if they receive no answers? - why then - then nothing will be [...?] - nothing will be done. but that there can be an y reason to apprehend but that reasons[?] will be given, and given in abundance: a fee[?] example, when increase of fees, or when satisfaction for losses[?] is supposed losses[?] is the [...?] results. On one side /of two sides/ there will be [...?] and answers to spare /Of answers [...?] to be put into one of the two opposite sdales there will be enough and to spare/: but should any thing be found wanting to put[?] into the othe scale, there it is that it will be found that these enquiries have full powers for [...?] falsehood, but even [...?] enables them to come at the truth.

Then comes an Act beginning "Whenever doubts have [...?]" - which is always the largeness when the penure[?] of the former /original/ Act a flaw in it, to draw more business out of, or was a /either/ known as a [...?] as both beyond a shadow of a doubt.