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8 Annuity II Sub (3/Head Office not to communicate with Individuals)
office, it may be observed on the other hand,
exhibits no such disturbance: but not only the
numbers of the customers, but their quality are
widely different in the two cases. Compared
to the whole. Sum for sum, it wouldTo compare a given sum would
take between 16 and 17 times as many Annuity
notes as it would does Exchequer Bills. this
taking it would do, taking the Annuity notes
at £6.6' — their highest proposed denomination:
and if to this there should come to be added
a further another swarm of £3.3' notes, and another
of 1 1/2 Guinea notes, and so on the confusion
seems unfathomable. The difference too
bet in point of deportment between the sort of
person who has never less than £100 to recover
with interest, and the sort of person who
has the interest alone and no more than the interest, of no more than a £6 6 guineas note, a 3
guineas note, or a 1 1/2 guinea note, to receive, is evident
enough. Confined to the business operation of wholesale
distribution, and that too performed by the mere
receipt and dispatch of packets, without any
personal intercourse, even with the limited, so much as with the Agents though
numerous, multitude howsoever considerable, number of Sub-Officers with whom
the correspondence is carried on, nothing can
be better defined more definite than the quantity of business
might be in a little time after a little experience, or even
beforehand, and with it the quantity of
covered space
House-Room necessary, to be together with
the quan number and quality of the hands.
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