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17 Oct. 1802 4 Note 1) 89

Note to p.89
Economy Colonial Advantage
1. II Collins. p. page 202. March 1799. "The settlement was at this time
much in want of many necessaries of life; and when these
were brought by speculators and traders, who occasionally
touched there, they demanded more than 500 per cent. above
what the same articles could have been sent out for from
England, with every addition of freight, insurance &c.

2. Ibid. Page 270 280. 3 January 1800. " Having touched at Rio de
"Janeiro the land (the ) land brought many articles for sale, as well from
"that port as from England, most of which were much wanted
"by the inhabitants: but the prices required for them were such
"as to drain the Colony of every shilling that could be got
"together.

3 To such a degree had had the this exhaustion at this been carried, that, if
I apprehend the passage right, a species of paper money, and
that paid by government itself had then been already been, and if so, probably continues
to be, current in New South Wales. The diffic

p.263. "The difficulties which were still placed in the way of the commissary
"in preparing his accounts to be sent home, through the settlers
"and other persons, who had not come forward, as they were
"some time since directed, to sign the requisite vouchers for
"the sums paid them for the grain or pork which they had
"delivered at the public stores, the commissary was directed not
"to make immediate payment in fut future, but to issue
"the government notes quarterly only, when every person concerned
"would be obliged to attend, and give the proper receipts
"for such sums as might be then paid them. This was a most
"useful regulation, & had had been long wanted." — The
Government notes: an expression which seems to imply that
the issuing of such notes had then already been in habitual use

This was in August 1799: four or five months before the
date time of the complaint made, as above, of the disappearance
of hard money.

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Date_1	1802-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note to p. 89
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Penner	jeremy bentham; john herbert koe	Watermarks
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