No, gentlemen, I confine my criticism to that law which empowers a clergyman, convicted of the vilest villainy, to retain his living in the teeth of every protest, and to continue poisoning the clean air of this parish by wilfully remaining in our midst.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
It empowers me and Mr. Starmidge here to search-but I needn't read it to you, Mr. Chestermarke, I think.
"The Chestermarke Instinct"
J. S. Fletcher
Section 30 of the same Act empowers justices to build additional asylums where necessary, and should they fail to do so, the Home Secretary, on the recommendation of the Commissioners, may enforce it.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke