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26 July 1808 B 2
Reason against Vouchers
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Reasons in support of Common A Law Evidence
with Vouchers Reasons submitted to the Board for the purpose
of showing that the evidence originally tendered in and by
the Accountant's original Account and again tendered in
the reason of voluntary Inspector Whitcomb's paper of Observations and Queries in the said Account, lacks the Accountant's Answers to the said Observations and Queries.
An assumption which that in the which tenor course of the observations
and requisitions made by Mr Chief Inspector in the occasion of this Account,
is seems to be implicitly involved, is -
that to for the entitle an Accountant to the clearance of this
or that item of in his Account, there exists under the name of a Voucher, a particular
species of evidence, of such transcendial, if if not exclusive
trustworthiness, that in comparison of it every other kind
of evidence is to be regarded as being either inadmissible
or insufficient, or at least presenting, upon
the face of it, a sufficient just ground for suspecting it
to be pregnant with falsity and fraud.
Under the name of a Receipt a ready written declaration
in writing, whereby an a person acknowledges himself
to have received of another, money to such or such amount
and purporting to be given at the very turn of such act of receipt; under the name of an Invoice, a
declaration in writing, whereby a an person declares,
himself to have sent off or to be about to send off, out of his possession, goods
of such or such a description, to the end they may
be received by another person to whom they are
addressed consigned, and this purporting to be given at
the very time of their being these documents being for each of them sent off duly signed: - & such are
not least of the species of the written documents [+] [+] regarded as it should seem as possessing the characters of Vouchers [+] and as being such that the delivery , if that seems thing is con is considered as not capable of being supplied if at all, them imperfectly by the delivery of the not having in either case possessing either
the sanction of an oath, or the scrutiny of cross examination
as a security for the completeness or correctness
of the information and assertions statements therein contained in it - such
are is the species sort of evidence, in comparison of which
under the system where in question, evidence to which
both these either or both securities either or both of them are applied, is if delivered at any
subsequent
subsequent point of time, regarded as either inadmissible or insufficient, or at least suspicious, may though of in some person in any other shape.
Identifier: | JB/122/321/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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See note to letter 1986, vol. 7 |
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