JB/547/414/001

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31 Decr 1810

Even in the denomination given to this most simple
business – the sort of business that is to be performed
in an Office of the sort in question, the genius of the
legislator has contrived to introduce ambiguity and
confusion obscurity – "Paying and refunding:. An issue
is to be kept open for the purpose of paying and refunding.
Would it not be imagined any one imagine that here even two distinct
businesses or operations meant to be spoken on – to one
of which the denomination of paying could alone be with
propriety applied – the the other the denomination of
refunding? Let him look on to the 13th Section
from this – let him look at §. 95 and he will
find that there is but no more than one such operation was in contemplation in the case:
that for that one operation the word paying was a
proper name denomination refunding not only an useless but an improper one.

If you were to know that From On reading that the Treasurer
was is to refund money to a Seaman you the natural
supposition is that it is from this Seaman that
he the Treasurer had has received the money which is so
to be refunded. No such thing: – that such is not the case.

As if to thicken the confusion already indicated,
immediately after, comes the word jointly: "and shall
jointly pay and refund such shares, when demanded",
according to the regulations hereinafter contained":
in quest of which regulations, without a guide the mind
of the Reader is sent to wander about and bewilder itself
in this wilderness, with its folio pages 80 and such as 123.

"When demanded" – as if says the legislator: as if
alarmed by the apprehension lest for want of this timely caution
a Cash Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, or the clerk of the Cheque
of the same, should
keep running up and
down the country, in
quest of persons within
to capable of being persuaded
to receive shares
of which no demand is made.

Identifier: | JB/547/414/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
Date_1	1810-12-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	547	Main Headings
Folio number	414	Info in main headings field	Prize. 1805. 1809. 1805 §. 82
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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