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Question 2. terms
in so far as
concerns further
more further than the stating
as above that I shall be
willing to undertake
the contract
at an amount for
each prisoner.
To be explicit, so far as concerns prices and expences,
and pecuniary means and resources of all sorts, I must beg leave
once for all to declare entering into any particulars beyond
what are contained in the Contract that was agreed
on. Of the consequence of the discussions which set
any such a specification would bring in, I am not altogether
without experience. A special good job bargain you
have made are making for yourself says one: – You will It will never
do, you will ruin yourself – it can't be due for the money:
you will ruin yourself: says another. Such was the language I used to be continually
hearing in conversation among friends. Now to apply this
to the case of a Committee of Parliament composed consisting suppose
of twenty a score of Members. By To By a majority out of the one half score
the price might appear or is be deemed excessive, and such that, on that account
the Contract ought not reported fit to be set aside: by the half score, so deficient as to a majority out of the other half score the ⊞ ⊞ some the same
prices sums are deemed
deficient, and so
deficient as to
shew the undertaking
to be
render the bus whole business the undertaking risk to be real which business impracticable, and such that
on that account the Contract ought to be set aside. In the case of each
Member as in the case of any individual taken singly taken singly the Claims are as imputing to me that
the quantum will not exactly quadrate with his views of what it ought to be.
In setting the terms of the contract with the Treasury
no such enquiries were ever ever made. I should not expect
to find hear that they any such enquiries had ever been made in any other
instance. If it had been said to me — "After having been settled
with as you will have to be the terms to be will be to be examined into and
settled in anew by and with a Committee of Parliament
I would should immediately have declined the business. I
Competence being altogether out of doubt, I should not however
should not however expect to find that a Committee of Parliament in point of fact thought it so to
employ itself any such Committee had ever thought fit so to employ itself.
had ever been so employed In case of suspicion of fraud
or delinquency in any shape, yes: but that I flatter myself is not the present
case. The case delinquency as far as to the
the what might have been means of delinquency have not yet found
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