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statutes oddly worded S eai s ago tl e british parliament passed a bill tor the rebuilding of a jail at chelmsford it was agreed that the prisoners should be confined to the old a 1 while the new one was building the new one however was to be constructed fron the materials of the old one in the reign of king william iv a statute was passed fix ing the punishment ot fourteen years transport at on for a particular offense it added upon conviction one half thereof shall go to the king and one halt to the informer just why the king should be transported for halt the term the person who drew the abc acc round it impossible to explain since he bad merely made a ludicrous blun der |