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24 Jany 1801
Paper Mischief

The value of Money is now (in the beginning of the year 1801) but
no more than half what it was 40 years ago:
40 years hence (in the beginning of the year
1841) it will be no more than half what it
is at present.

Such are the two propositions which constitute
the basis of the ensuing pages: and of
the proposed measures to which they lead.
Such are the propositions which⊞ ⊞ in a form more commodious for discussion than any that would be more accurate, and express without with
a de a degree of accuracy near sufficient enough for practice express any such deviation from accuracy as
can lead to any difference in point of practoce
wh the best estimate I have been led seen reason to form of the
amount of that depretiation the existence of
which in a considerable degree is not a matter
of doubt with anybody.

I say sufficient for practice: for although if, for
argument sake the depretiation instead of
amounting as above to 50 per Cent should
not prove to amount to more than 25 per
Cent, the demand for remedial measures
would not by an aberration even of this magnitude
be found, I conceive, to be done taken
nor the propriety of the measures recommended
in that view disproved.

But it will appear, I am inclined to
think that the depretiation of it be not quite
so much as 50 per Cent is at any rate much nearer the
50 per Cent than the 25.

Identifier: | JB/003/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1	1800-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1513
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