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7 Annuity Notes Plan II. Sale paid Agents Pay [6]
Whatsoever the pay profit recompense allotted
to the Agent of Government in this article, the
proportion of it portion that without prejudice to the sale
of it can be left to be borne by the purchaser
is confined within very narrow bounds. A single
penny If the difference between the purchasing
price and the circulating price be much more
than is what is necessary to pay recompense
a man for the trouble of going to the Shop —
the Post Office instead of waiting till it a Note comes
into his hands in the course of circulation, either
a man will wait, and that the of the article
will be crampt checked and retarded, or else he
will be on the look be at out for notes already
in circulation, in which case the holders
those who happen to be possessed of them in
quantities will ask an extra price for them
by which means there will be an agio or premium
will establish itself on circulating notes
as compared with fresh ones, and the simplicity
steadiness in regard to price, and consequently
simplicity in regard to the business
of circulation — properties in which the value
and utility of the article are so much depend concerned
will be more or less disturbed. A penny
seems to be quite enough for the Vendor to take from the customer: purchaser: if


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