1820 June 21

Emancipation Spanish

'.6. Creoles repugnant

Appeal

Note that among the most important causes, whether penal or non- penal /or penal/ are coincident[?], are those that are not susceptible of valuation in money.

In non-penal cases take for instance those which regard condition in life: the question - who is or is not husband or wife to such or such a person, son, daughter, nephew, neice &c. /ward, guardian/ for the purpose of inheritance or any other purpose.

In penal cases, every person who is condemned to capital punishment, or to any punishment approaching in severity to capital, will appeal of course Is the appeal to be allowed? Then that punishment the infliction of which is regarded as necessary to the prevention of crime rendered more or less uncertain, and at the best removed to an indefinite distance. Is the appeal in these cases to be disallowed? Then with consistency subject the parties to all this delay vexation and expense in cases of inferior importance, when you think it too great for cases of superior importance?