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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

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