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Click Here To Edit 1. Annuity Notes
Ch. Circulation
indubitable
Certainty affirmation of
circulation

The customers for temporary annuities - the
possessers of temporary sums - are in effect
- every body that is ever master of a sum of money:
- that is with scarce an exception or perhaps
once. (for the case of the meanestpoorest day - labourer
does not afford one) every body whatsoever. There
is not that individual existing to whom sooner orin this course
later it doesof his life it does not frequently<add>every now and then happen</add> happen, even without the inducement
which is now for the first time afforded, to be in
possession of money to an amount sufficient and
for a time sufficient to affordyield him and interest worth
having, if a source for the yielding of that interest were
but give to him. That source provided even at so
low a rate of interest as 3 per cent, a single
half guinea will pay a man a farthing for keeping
it, if it happens to him to keep it, or if he can
contrive to keep it. For four and twenty days. Every
man therefore who ever has to whom it happens to have money may be reckonedset down
on the list of customers for these annuities: nor of
those who to whom it ever happens to have money
is there a single individual to whom it does
who has not theat our means of possessing one of these
annuities, and an adequate inducement sufficient
to engageinduce him to put himself in possession of it.
Among those then who have an interest in obtaining
and in keeping moneya sum in hand, there is not one who would not
have an equal interest in obtaining, and a considerably
superior interest in retaining an Annuity note
to the amount yielding him interest for that sum: Supposing


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Identifier: | JB/002/525/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

002

Main Headings

annuity notes

Folio number

525

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

g&ep 1794

Marginals

Paper Producer

fr3

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1794

Notes public

ID Number

1264

Box Contents

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