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The customers for small but permanent Annuities
- the possessors of sums regarded as capable of being kept
but not to the end of a man's life, or some other such
long and indefinite period, but not large enough to buy stock with will become purchasers
of these Notes without any designing intention to part with
them unless in casethe event of some casual or unforeseen
exigence, and unless on the happening of some
such event will not in fact part with them.

The possessors of sums which though whether large enough
or not large enough, to by stock with are not regarded
as capable of being kept long enough for the interest
to pay the expence of buying and selling Stock,
or which the circumstances and views of the owners
do not admitt of their committing them to that
risk of depretiation to which Stock is cannot but subject
remain exposed, can not become purchasers of
but with the intention of corresponding mass of Annuity Notes parting them, nor
without the assurance of being able to part with
them without any such risk. The for A man
thus circumstanced will not receive purchase an Annuuity
Note without the assurancepersuasion of its being received
in circulation.

But by the class first mentioned they will, an Annuity Note be
as just stated received without any such assurance. Persons of this
class can not be in any small number: nor can
the amount of the sums which they are able and willing to


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