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Archaic and inconsistent spelling and punctuation has been reproduced as printed.

Illegible or unclear letters have been imputed to form the word expected in the context.

In the original work, the page numeral 12 appears twice, on the pages shown here as 11 and 12. The page numeral 52 appears twice, on the pages shown here as 52 and 54; and the page numeral 53 appears twice, on the pages shown here as 53 and 55.

The following changes have been made to the text as printed:

1. Page 33: whereupou has been changed to whereupon.
2. Page 37: wher-by hyphenated across a line break has been rendered as whereby.
3. Page 37: A full stop has been inserted after Vote of both Houses.
4. Page 39: ex-exchanges hyphenated across a line break has been rendered as exchanges.