JB/122/318/001

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11 Aug. 1808 IV ⱡ
Arrangements Suggested
IV. Tax not.

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IV. Fourth practice
requiring correction -
requiring an Accountant
superfluous taxes in
this way of extra postage
and stamps.
Practice Waste of
paper in Offices noted
in this purpose as
a cause of the

Another practice point of which the expression thus acquired has
presented itself to my view as requiring susceptible of correction
is in comparison if the others of minor importance but
yet not the point of view at any rate may be decided
not altogether of regard, I mean
the position of whereby a power of evidence indeed
but with the less rank power of taxation it exercised over Accountants.

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Examplification of
this waste in S.B.
venture
Not long ago, on the occasion of a recent rise in the addition to the
very high immorally continually rising price of writing paper, occasion ( I observed)
was taken, in one of the public prints to point out an alledged
wasteful consumption of that commodity in the public Offices as contributing
in an inconsiderable degree to the pressure.

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- with the addition
of superfluous postage
in his with
the Country
In addition to one short and in the folio form has come
eventually another, constituting a useless envelope.

Which I the Accountant continued in London, the waste paid of the burthen such
as it was [+] [+] (I mean the direct and ponderable level of it, exclusive of the recent and imponderable part impending in the shape of an embarrassment of price) was borne exclusively by the public purse. And
<add> On On his removal not the country. I found to this comparatively
inconsiderable burthen he I the Accountant found a much
more considerable one attached, and now under this change of situation,
falling upon himself: viz. in the shape of expense
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This tax is imposed
on Accountants, indiscriminately:
sans regard
to
The
have been found sensible
by it.
of postage: double letter, consequently double postage.
For the purpose of the individual case, it was has not then </del> not thought
worth mentioning, but is in the aggregate and for the sake of the principle and as applying
indescriminately to all Accountants, without regard to their
respective capability of endurance, it may perhaps be not
altogether of the attention of the Board.

[+] Such as the burthen
is it has fallen in
my way to observe
some of the
persons in England not
to it shewing themselves not insensible to it.

Identifier: | JB/122/318/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-08-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	318	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	C1 / E2
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	001
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