JB/010/244/001

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1830 April 12
J.B. to Herries

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Mode of keeping accounts of – i.e. making recordation
of the occurrences which take place in the conduct
of the business of this or that branch of the Official Establishment
is an : power of making disposal of the public
money money, and for that purpose making draughts and causing them to be paid is another and a very different thing Sir

These Of these two things the manner in which Sir W. Barwick
speaks is such as tempts me to suspect that he stays has not adverted
be to the distinction between these but has considered them
as one and the same.

As to the power of disposing of the public money
and making draught for it, so far as regards the great bulk
of the mass the advance of the Crown constituted authority have no hope prospect of
being able to preserve it from the controul on them from the
inspection of Parliament, and through Parliament of the people at
large, have never any such endeavour: and as to this part I
take for granted (unless the us by adoption given to the
mode I should be forced to change such my opinion) their wish
would be to see the accounts mode in which these same accounts
are kept as intelligible as possible.

But as to another part – and that be in extent
not yet continuance and indeterminable it is their has been and
continues to be their wish their will and pleasure to keep it exempt from the controul
and inspection abovementioned, for such having at all times
been their practice, I such the exemption actually given to it how it can have failed to be their
wish – their will and pleasure – that such exemption should
not be possessed by it – is more than I am able to imagine.

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Date_1	1830-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	244	Info in main headings field	jb to herries
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	3680
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