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Art. 20
3 Annuity Notes
Redescription
1 Price of Silver &c
S7 Priority of compliance
with the
vices of Government
in respect of the discipline
A warrantable principle
of selection in
favour of individuals
8 7. The right of on the part of government, as trustee
for the public, to pay off all or any of its Creditors
(subject to any such restrictions if any as may have been
inserted in the terms of the respective contracts) being in
point of strict justice out of all dispute, and the advantages
derivable from the operation, depending in
a great degree upon the quickness of its course, if
consistently with the above conditions a principle
of selection can be found that consistently with the
above conditions, can contribute to despatch do any in any degree to the
acceleration of the process, it will in so far
be an eligible one.
7 8. viz: in favour
of those who vie
one with another
in the acceptance
of a first reduction
to serve this class to retard their being
from involved in a second.
9 8. An example of an accelerative measure of
this kind is the establishment establishing in favour of those who
shall be the earliest in testifying their contributing their assistance
to the accomplishment of a preceding first redemption, a
degree of favour, proportioned to the dates of their respective
compliances, acts of compliance in respect of a the temporary exemption
from the disadvantages resulting from the a
subsequent or viz: the succeeding redemption.