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411 Annuity Notes
Plan
III. Payment

At the Bank not only the time requisite for the payment
of a given sum is rendered altogether
uncalculable, not only by the perfect uncertainty of the sums
as well as point of magnitude as of nessevenness
(I mean the number of the pieces of money necessary to
compose each sum it) but by the equally perfect uncertainty
with regard to the number of applicants within coming at
the samea given time: and were even both these points
fixed and ascertained, still the dispatch would the degree of be continually
liable to be retarded and disturbed by
incidents arising out of resulting arising out of from doubts, well or ill grounded
real or affected relative to the goodness of the several
pieces of money and the altenuation liable to
be produced out of those doubts, by the perculiarness
that may occurr in the temper of individuals.

At the proposed Annuity Office, individuals
having neither access nor occasion for access, all
such incidents with the delays that hang to them
are cut off.drop off themselves. The operations are confined to two -
telling or making up. and dispatching. The sums
to be told are the same sums, sums of 3s:9d which may be com
to be composed (for so, for uniformity sake it will
be convenient for them to be) and made up in
the same manner- Men, women orand children -
the deaf and dumb - and the blind may be
emply'd in it. [+] It may be a perfect piece of The[+] And the timeday
by which they will
be wanted being foreknown,
whatever
length of time may
be requisite for the
completion of the business
may be pre-allotted
to the
performance of it.

clock-work: and the time and number of hands requisite necessar
for the performance of performing a given quantity of it - for making
up a given number of these 3s 9d money dividends - may be pre-
determined with little loss certainly than the
striking of a clock. For dispatching it The Annuity-Note-Packet from each


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Identifier: | JB/002/619/001
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002

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Annuity Notes

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619

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1

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Penner

Jeremy Bentham

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1358

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