I should apologise, perhaps, for the style of this bill. I dislike the verbose and intricate sytle of the English statutes, and in our revised code I endeavor to restore it to the simple one of the ancient statutes, in such original bills as I draw in the work.

I suppose the reformation has not been acceptable, as it has been little followed.

You, however, can easily correct this bill to the taste of my brother lawyers, by making every other word a "said" or "aforesaid," and saying everything over two or three times, so nobody but we of the craft can untwist the diction, and find out what it means; and that, too, not so plainly but that we may conscientiously divide one half on each side.