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may receive from your judgment in this behalf, will have the father
good effect that I shall immediately communicate the benefit of it to
Mr. Hodges, with an intimation to whom is is obliged for it.—

On the other hand should this view of the matter present itself
to you as unimpeachable, it will be in every respect to the advantage
of your Client to receive the intimation (notwithstanding any disappointment
that may be attached to it) at this earlier stage of the business, rather
than a later: and from a Gentleman who on every ground who is so well
intitled to his confidence, rather than from a person aimed with the
authority of Office, and where whose decision will as such, be apt enough, to be
regarded with an eye of jealousy —

"Oh but" (says the Tenant) "the damage results not only from the
"earliest of the time, but from the suddenness of it. What I was to have
"had was, 24 days and a twelvemonth for the removal; what I am to have
" under the notice is only the 24 days." — No (replies the Agent
of the Public) Though the day named for quitting is the 25th of March
(if being necessary that some one day in particular should be mentioned
as a day to reckon from and ceteris paribus no day is so material
and proper as a Quarter Day) yet that this really was not the day
on which you could really be obliged to quid, appears upon the face of
the notice itself, and of the Act on which it grounds itself. You would
have in the first place to stay without giving any answer till the 12th
the day specified in that behalf in the notice. The earliest day on
which the compensation could by possibility be tendered to you, would be
the 13th, after which you would have 21 days to consider whether to
accept or to refuse it: then, the in the case of your non-acceptance would
come all the time requisite for the summoning the Jury, and it is
not till after their Verdict is given, and a second tender of the money made

Identifier: | JB/117/156/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	jb to donne letter 1
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	copy of letter 1524, vol. 6	ID Number	38773
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