JB/149/237/001

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Statistic Society

Decendi. Ends
The necessity of some
society for the collection
and publication
of facts and reasonings
relating to political
economy and morals
and legislation.

Utility for the
advancement of the
science.

Advantages Benefits
1 – Count Directing public
opinion.
2 – Aiding the government
in good measures
3 – Rendering commercial
operations more safe
and equable.
4 – Promoting the condition
of the labouring
classes and preserving
the peace.

Exemplifications
1 Public opinion
exemplifications The
currency question
equitable adjustment
Advantages of direct
taxation. Tithes: the
population question
doctrine of population.
Truct system, poor
laws.

2. Aid to government.
– Colonial question. "The
Shipping Interests". The
Timber trade. The
various trades having
commerce protecting
duties. Trades enjoying
quasi monopolies by
means of taxes.

3. Commercial operations
more secure.
Amount of imports and
exports of Bullion.
Custom House returns
and statistics
accounts from foreign
ports to shew the
average amount of demand and
supply.

4. Condition of the
labouring classes,
circumstances influencing
wages. Comparative
conditions of the labourers
in various countries now
and formerly: Influence
effects of machinery

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of combinations and
combination laws:
of education: of
Savings Banks and
Benefit Societies
Mortuary
registers: food
circumstances & lodging
emigration: Home
Colonization and
the poor laws

Means of effectuation
By an appropriate library of referrence
collection comprehending of all
the published works
in all languages
Foreign and English

By correspondence
established with persons
in various different countries
and in such different situations
giving as afford them peculiar
advantage for
superior requirements
in var particular
departments of knowledge

1 By The publication
of volumes transactions wholly
periodically only and The
occasionally publication
of certain
articles or lots of
information or copies
before the public

By the obtainment
and publication of
official returns regularly
and in a convenient
form.

Composition of the
Society to carry into
effect those objects by
such means
1. Fellows yearly or life
2. Corresponding members
3. Honorary members.

Government
By a Council
Chairman Secretary
Sub-Committees of the
Council
Secretaries

Oral discussions
inapplicable: reasons
why.

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Income
Subscriptions and
donations
Sale of publications

Expenditure
House rent,
purchase of books
payment of contributors
to the transactions.
Payments for the
collections of facts
and the formation
of tables giving conciseness and completeness
and instructive order
Printing.
Salary to Secretary Salary to Clerk

Publication of
prospectuses
– To originators
– Members of the government.
– The public

Why the objects
of the society should
not be restricted
to the advancement
of political economy
properly so
called.

5 To aid in collection
collecting and methodizing
facts already
recorded and take
measures for the
advancement in new
future recordation
and collection of
new facts.

As Mortuary registers
Tabes of births
and marriages; and
other information
for the formation of
insurance tables.

Identifier: | JB/149/237/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	237	Info in main headings field	statistic society
Image	001	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	50091
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