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it leaves us in utter darkness. Is it too in other respects a
good Bill? Causes grounds of suspicion and that those of the
strongest kind present themselves upon the face of it.
A period is expressly declared mentioned <add></add> during which it will not
be received accepted of as such by the very government
that issues it. It is not to be current or pass in any of
the Public Revenues, Aids, Taxes or Supplies whatsoever
or at the Receipt of the Exchequer before the 6th day
of April in the next year that is for half a year and
upwards. Before that period then it will not be treated
as a good Bill: this is expressly it expressly says said expressly: will it
afterwards and when? of this nothing is said: it is left
open to conjecture.

The Nor is this all: another drawback ground of uncertainty and suspicion upon its goodness.
How soon it is to be paid it does not state
but what it does state is that it is not to be paid till
another term, to amounting perhaps to several millions
has been paid Registered and payable after 1.754,400
says a Bill No 17,545 I have before me. When is it then that this
£1.754,400 will be paid? This again is all in darkness.
To a person acquainted with the mechanism
of government all these points are in a state of perfect
clearness: he knows that with all these apparent
difficulties and uncertainties the Bill that presents them is altogether at least as good as a Bank note. But
among of persons into whose hands Bank notes
who are not unaccustomed to rase the <add>simple language</add>
of a Bank note will not one out of a hundred or perhaps
a thousand has any such acquaintance with the mechanism
of government.
Even

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15 continued
Box	002	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	344	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e27
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	1083
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