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Art. 15. 32
2 Annuity Notes Ch. Plan. 1. Creation. (6) continued
Through the delivery of letters is thus expeditious to the amount
of from 2 to 6 deliveries in a day the delivery of money viz
the money received on account of those letters does not it is
true occur more than once a month. The reason that takes
place in the instance of the letters does not apply in the instances
of the money at least in any thing like equal force where the
amount of the receipts is so small if the deliveries of money
and consequently the attendancies for the purpose of settling the
account of the money were in any considerable degree
in any considerable degree more numerous than they are the profit by the extra degree
of dispatch would scarce equal the expence
The recompense to the officer is settled upon a plan more
frugal than it is believed is to be found exemplified in the
instance of any other class of Public Offices they pay on each
transaction or operation as no more than one thetenth part of
a penny and in the compass of that transaction are included
the two distinct operations of stamping with two different
stamps besides that of occasionally giving change where
change is demanded and besides the part which each transaction
has in swelling the account of time to be expended
on those common operations of sorting counting entering and
casting up which bear reference to the whole.
Where the rate of pay to be taken for the standard it
that indeed would be disadvantageous in the highest degree
for it amounts to no less than 10 per cent but to make
application of the precedent in this way would be to make
a very erroneous use of it on occasions like this pecuniary
and other qualifications out of the question for the moment for
they form separate articles of consideration the first question is
the quantity of time requisite to be expressed in the discharge of the duties of