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that all the beneficial consequences* ex¬ 
pected to arise from this acquisition, will, 
at no distant period, be amply felt 
LAWS, 
The total want of an efficient code of 
Civil and Criminal Laws, has long been 
severely felt at this Settlement. In the 
great variety of people who compose its 
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Population, it must be supposed, that 
numbers will readily embrace the oppor¬ 
tunity here unfortunately presented to 
them, of practising the most nefarious acts, 
when they are sensible no power exists to 
coerce or restrain them. This observation 
applies particularly to all those who are 
not included under the general, but 
indefinite expression of Natives, as no 
European can be imprisoned for debt, nor 
even sued for it; while on the other hand, 
he has the power of recovering any money 
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