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Need very particular instructions, and happily no higher offences (except one larceny) appear in the calendar than some criminal fraud and a few assaults. One of them indeed is stated as very atrocious, and if you consider that the frequency of small crimes becomes a serious evil in society, you will not thing the more trivial complaints unworthy of your attention. Redress of wrongs must be given, or it will be taken; and the law wisely forbids the slightest attack upon the person of a subject, lest far worse mischief should ensue from the sudden ebullition of rage, or the slower, but the more dangerous operation of revenge.

Your powers, however, are not limited to this calendar, or even to the bills which may be preferred; for, whatever else shall come to your knowledge, it will be your part to present, and ours to hear attentively. Thus, by a cordial concurrence in preserving the public peace, and bringing such as violate it to punishment, we shall contribute, in our respective stations,
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