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25 Annuity Notes
Plan
II Sale
Post Offices
preferable to
Stamp Offices
[1]
This first mentioned consideration is comparatively
a tr very trusting one: the following one is far
otherwise. The plan and rate of accounting
observed by the Distri Vendor of Stamps is of that
dilatory kind compleation which is most usual but too prevalent - which is most prevalent in all trusts
sorts of trusts: though in the least degree it must be
confessed in particular in Government Trusts. The
face of the Post master but more particularly of
the Penny Postmaster is of the most rapid kind
By a happy contagion the operation
of ever accounting for the produce [+] has borrowedimbibed rapidity from for the money recovered
for conveyance
the arena of conveyance
the rapidity of the conveyence itself. Six Deliverin
six in every day.the power then Six times every day products
of letters sent of, and in many of them of
course Bank Notes. That this could not
be done with Annuity Notes or with the money
received Bank notes and last received with Annuity
Notes would be too much for the most determined
objector even to insinuate.
Six times in every day the produce of this
financial resource emptied into its proper reservoir
the proper reservoir of all financial resources: while
public money drawn from other sources are the produce of other financial resources is suffered
to linger (to linger because such is the custom -
- a custom established when the means of adequate
despatch had not yet been brought to maturity - whenere yet
the practicability of adequate dispatch had not yet accountants may
have time to run
away with it
been demonstrated by experience —) some three
months - some six months - some twelve months
seem a term of years the most expeditious not less
than a week - that the indigent and dishonest class ofaccountants