An Amusing Blunder.
The Lord Chancellor, speaking in London recently on the codification of the statutes, told an amusing story as to the way in which Acts of Parliament are drafted and amended. An Act was once passed which imposed a pecuniary penalty for the falsification of parish registers, half of which was to go to the informer and the other half to the Crown. In a subsequent and amending Act this was changed to transportation ! for seven years, but the remaining words were not altered, so that half the transportation was to go to the informer and the other half io the I Crown.
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Manawatu Herald, 6 July 1897, Page 2
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105An Amusing Blunder. Manawatu Herald, 6 July 1897, Page 2
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