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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
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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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