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1791. Sessions. [Saturday] Dec. 3d.

I wish to mention because altho’ I believe my Opinion is the General Opinion yet it is not universal, I mean my Opinion that the Penal Laws of England do not extend to this Country and the better to reconcile their Acts to the Conscience of the Jury, I think the Indictments should be framed on the Common Law.