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7 Aug. 1801

afford much obstruction to the learned Baronet) how
much better a game would he have had to
play (if such had been my plan – I should
have said my project –) in proving the impracticability
of keeping trust money, or trust
documents in a chest furnished with three such
locks?(a) (a) Note in p.127.

He has heard and seen in no small number,
things called Indentures-tripartite, tripartite alias-partite
and pluras-partite being parchments with
notches in them, now serving no other purpose
but that of occasionally vitiating deeds by their absence, but originally
and applied to better purposes:
purposes of the sort here in view: though the
adaptation of the article to those purposes be now
disused, for reasons neither unsubstantial nor very difficult
to divine.

He has seen, or not seen, the pieces of
wood called Tallus furnished with corresponding sets of notches – contrivances, which, whether
better or worse contrived imagined than the notches notches in paper
or parchment were contrivances directed to the same general
object, and will hardly be regarded as contemptible
ones,at least in the office in which they are still in use.
In this instance, one of the correspondent parts pieces
towards goes on its travels, while the other, designed
as a check to it, stays at home. If
both were to travel, while the payment of the
money depended upon their reunion at the office
from whence the money was to issue, the case
would in principle be more apposite than that
of the actual practice in that office, to the case of the
proposed

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Date_1	1801-08-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	annuity notes
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