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.