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Commissioners . . . . to frame . . . Forms of Account — Books . . .

Inserenda Observations IV Regulations . 27 76 Powers for prescribing Forms of Book keeping not pregnant with any hardship — need

Against the obligation of keeping the sort of
Books in question, the trouble of the task may
be considered regarded as forming a considerable objection —
but upon a closer inspection, the objection will, it is presumed,
be found to vanish. Either a man would
have kept kept the Books, and made the entries in question of
his own accord, and without any such obligation,
or he would not: in the first case there is not
trouble does not exist by the supposition; in the other the trouble will find an ample compensation
in the benefit it will be attended with to the
individual himself, and his connections those with whom he deals
over and above the public benefit, as redemption
to the attainment of which the presumed obligation is directed.of which it is proposed to be imposed
Not to speak of persons at large in general when a man
is engaged concerned in trade, he owes it to himself
and family to keep Books — he owes it to by
a still stronger tie, to his creditors: and the more particular and
instructive these Books are, the better for all
parties. </unclear> The proposed obligation thus To the amount
of the proposed obligation may therefore be set down
on the profit side the collateral benefit derived from it to individuals utility of which it possesses with reference
from it to individual security, in the character of a preservation against
mismanagement and Bankruptcy, and the frauds which are
so apt to attach upon that distressful state.
If this collateral private benefit should be regarded
as affording sufficient compensation for the trouble,
the public benefit, by the contemplation of which suggests
the obligation, was suggested, may be x regarded as profit. There may

Identifier: | JB/150/523/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	76
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	523	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 / f99
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50744
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