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31 Decr 1810
Prize 1805, 1809: 1805 § 82

But this keeping of the office open open Office or Offices, and this business
that is to be done, where is it to be done take place?
To this too our the legislator has his answer ready – an
answer in his own stile: "after" it is to be "after
the Balance (what Balance?) "shall have been so
"paid over to the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital,
"or his Deputy".

Here we see may be seen another danger with the apprehension
of which he his providence forecast was alarmed, and
against which his adroitness ingenuity has enabled him to shut the door.

That Reason The personages in question – some or
all of them – before they had ever got the money might
have been anxious to gone about and refunded it:
This is what they would have done: this is what they are
now inhibited and by the inhibition happily prevented
from doing.

But paying money in an office is one thing,
keeping the office open another thing: and moreover
before an Office can be kept open, it must be have
been opened.

But such has been the providence of the legislator
let there be every whatsoever may be the number of these
Offices, not one of them is there that is to be opened
until "after the Ballance shall have been so paid over".
And the Ballances, what are the Ballances? Answer,
all the Balances whose destiny it is to be so dealt with:
if not all, let any one say fix upon any one of those
Balances and say the Office is to be opened before this
ball Balance has been paid. – Of all the Balances this is the first
for the payment of which the opening of the Office was not meant to wait.

Identifier: | JB/547/416/001 "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	416	Info in main headings field	Prize. 1805. 1809. 1805 §. 82
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
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