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54
Art. 17
It would be matter of subordinate consideration
whether the fee for payment should be repeated in toto for every
repetition of this value in the note sent in for
payment — whether in any and what instances
it and in what degree it should increase with
the number of the composing the sum
put in for payment, that sum remaining the
same. These are matter of subordinate consideration, too minute to be worth discussing here —
What is more they are too minute to be settled
definitively by Parliament and at the same too
intricate and difficult to comprehend rightly in the way
of anticipation to be adjusted definitively without
the assistance of experience. The same reason therefore
that which obtains applies in the case of purchase and exchange
plead for the touching the adjustment of the
business within certain limits to the produce of
the Executive Government, pleads again in the
present case, and with augmented force.
Meantime it may be observed there in the provincial adjustment
or experiment of the quantum of their fee, by the executive
Government it is not necessary to take for the sole standard that case
which affords the greatest trouble: the standard should
be a medium composed of all the several cases
taken together, regard being had to their probable
degree of frequency: nor should it pass unobserved
that the case which is attended with the greatest
trouble to the offices of Government, the local Postmaster
is also attended with the greatest trouble to
the Note holder: and therefore were it not that the smaller
Note holders will be so much more numerous than the [+]
[+] greater Note holders is that which is likely to be least frequent.