12 Aug 1808

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I Arrangement Suggested I. Promulgate Rules

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Arrangements

humbly suggested to the Commissioners of the Audit Board in

the character of Remedies to certain supposed Defects in the practice of

their judicatory.

N o. 1. Promulgation of the Rules

of practice: - due and official promulgation or notification to

be made to the Suitor (the Accountants)concerning the rules of

procedure observed by the judicatory in its function, so far

forth as the knowledge of such practice may come to be necessary for their

guidance.

To judge of a man's conduct, and determine his fate,

either without any rule at all, or by a set of rules, to

which

they being unknown to him, it is not

possible for him to adjust his conduct, is in principle a sort of

solecism, which to be recognized in that character

no more it should seem then to be thus briefly brought to

view.

In the superior jurisdictions the Westminster Hall Courts - in no one

instance does the Suitor find himself of

so necessary an advantage.

Rules and Orders of the Courts a Book of published by

individuals: all these sources of information are open to him;

open at any rate to those professional men, without

whose advice and assistance, notwithstanding what is afforded by

these mute guides, it has

become impossible for him to make a rough

in this track, which within the jurisdiction of the Audit Board

he has to travel, though from beginning to end , with the

demesne of the Audit Office