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APPENDIX.. ?s you feem to deftre ? which, after all you have fiid to the contrary, would be binding the �cholar, like an .dpprentice, and impriffling him in on? ciety. But Szco/?m.�, you objeO',that even this infuffi.. tient, defegtive flatute is eluded, and the penalty not regularly exacted: for you fly, that it ought to be paid by the Governor himfell, into whokcollegeany ?etlon is thus irregul4rly admitted ? whereas, in the prefent care, it was not paid by the * I'rovofl of Oriel, but by Mr. Seaman himfelf. by the hands of Mr. Bovoles ? which ! have before proved to be a direr: falfi'ty: But this, with fubmiffion, is the. ?veakefi and molt childills ol?je6iion, that I ever met with from f'o learned a Pen. Does the law enquir% in any penal ?atute, by whom the mone is aid Y P the law indeed flys, that, if you break fuchafiatute, you mu8 forfeit fuch or fuch a fum ? but it does uot fay, that you fl?all not borroro it of a ?;riend, or that anoeher fhall not pay it tbr you. Thus, when any man is fin;d for a mirdemeanor, the offender obliged to produce the money, ? but, provided he does that, no body troubles h?, head out of whole pocket it comes. Betides, thi, is an objedion which can never be removed, it being impofible to find out who fuppties the money, or prevent a Fefent o{ the fame value. in a word, were the penalty of this 1!atute an hundred i?ou?ds, inflead of fort? Ihillings, it would be ttill liable to the fame evafio?i:'nay, it would be liable to it in a much higher degree ? for a avuern0r might, perhaps, think it worth his while to oft fi?illings [o eta youn man, of a ood .payfiry . g g . g eharafler and promifing Nrts, into hts college, (as you fly yourfelf, 'l' that you would purehate a good Tut,r at any rate,) whereas he world not comply H ? with