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Annuity Notes

Abstract; Offices

One In the Penny Post Office, one tenth part of a penny is the reward pay for
on each transaction all every on in respect of each letter; each marked with
one stamp: many (those with which money is paid)
with two stamps, besides the trouble in this case of examining and
receiving the money, and occasionally of giving change.

To draw a plan in the matter Quantity of trouble, not value of the subject
-matter may otherwise - than with a view to pecuniary
room for a
responsibility, is the proper standard and efficient cause of demand for pay. Poundage, considered as a mode of remuneration in the object for consideration efficient cause <add>reason of for pay</add>
Poundage is therefore considered as a system <add>mode of remuneration</add> very apt to find itself unproportioned
and excessive.</del>

The proper quantum of pay is in all cases the least that will
be accepted by a person competent to the business: those
all cases except those cases only excepted, in which, from the </del> value of the
a case in which the value of the service is not capable </add>
service, the value of it is capable of being raised to an indefinitely increasing pitch of excellence by
extraordinary exertions.

Quantity With this exception, quantity of trouble, not not value of the subject
matter, any otherwise than with a view to pecuniary
responsibility, is the proper standard, and efficient cause and standard of demand,
for pay remuneration. Poundage, considered as a mode
of remuneration, is therefore very apt to find itself
disproportionate and excessive.

Thr On a letter, for which no more than a penny
is received, out of which penny the expence of conveyance
must be defray'd, as well as a portion of the expence
of general superintendence, and a profit made, ten
per cent for the trouble of receiving is, at the same
time, almost as little as can be given and yet, (though in this case no more than the tenth part of a penny) as much
as requires to be given. For receiving the price
of a set of stamps, some of them as high as several
pounds apiece, the same poundage would be acknowledged
to be excessive.

Identifier: | JB/002/053/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	14 continued
Box	002	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	053	Info in main headings field	art. 15
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	792
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