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22 March 1808
Audit Office Correspondence J.B. to Booth
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which being deducted [from the said greater sum] leaves instead
of the £1751:11:9, no more than £1,395:5:9d. If this
be so, you see how impossible it will be for me to make
use of the receipt you were so good as to send me for that
larger sum.
What is possible is, that whereas in the above sum
as it now appears, some articles were by mistake included
which did not belong to the Penitentiary House, so on the
other hand are some articles which did belong to the Penitentiary
House were omitted. But admitting this to
be the case it seems hardly to be conceived that the
amount of the articles so omitted by mistake should
so exactly agree with the amount of the articles inserted
by mistake.
In speaking of this £356:6s:0d as included
in your former computation of the amount of goods
furnished for the Penitentiary House, you will observe
that I speak from no other document than the statement
given by the Officer of the Board for the purpose
of his Queries in relation to this subject: for your
the papers containing your communications which are
the subject of those queries, are not in my hands, but
in those of the Board, or its abovementioned Officer, in
which they lie at present in the character of Vouchers.
Under these circumstances, I know not what better I can do
than to send back to you, as I do herewith your abovementioned
receipt begging the favour of you to make such alteration, if
any as may be proper to be made in the aforesaid sum total,
and having so done to send it back to me. In making the
alterations, if any, I would recommend the leaving the erroneous
part
part as it is, with
only a line drawn
through it, and the
requisite correction interlined
above: and
that the first letters of
your name should be
put in the margin in the
same hand to shew that
the alterations were really made by you, and not by any person into whose hands the paper may have come after its passing out of yours. [+]
[+] If this so simple an alteration will render the account correct, so much the better: if not, I
must be under the necessity of requesting of you the requisite explanations: for pose by
the paper inclosed in the first of Mr Lloyd's first two letters to you on the subject, you see how
strict and particular the enquiries are.
I am
Sir, Your obedient humble Servant
Jeremy Bentham
Mr Booth
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