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Sir
Upon looking over the Estimate you delivered to me but
now I observe that no values are set upon the particular articles, nor
even to the whole Stock: the only sum set down being a lumping
charge for the damage by the removal.
What I expected to have found was in a line with each article,
in one column the value value of it as expressed by the sum you would be
willing to take for it if left, and in another column the damage which
according to your estimate would accrue to you if it were not paid
for; so that you had to run the risk of its dying on removal, and to
bear the expence of removing it.
Another thing is that a plant of the same kind varies much in
value according to the age. What I should therefore have expected is
to see the plants of the same kind classed at different prices according
to their ages.
In some places plants are set down only by the number of Beds.
As a bed may be of any size I do not see what information can
be thus conveyed. There seems to be no great difficulty in setting down
the number of plants in a bed in any case: and, where the plants are planted at regular distances, and the Bed is full, the trouble is a
nothing. — Bed so many feet by so many — Rows so many —
Plants in a row so many.—
I told you before that the passing any judgment on your charges
would not be any task of mine. It will be performed by a person who
will be named for that purpose by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
& who will (I take for granted) be a person conversant with your trade. In
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158 |
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frances wright |
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copy of letter 1513, vol. 6 |
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