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[II] [M . . . . Auditor . . .] For the purpose of authentication, were
it only for appearance sake, the name of this officer should be in
the form of an autograph: but this autograph need not be written
with a pen: a fac similie, engraved from the hand writing, is as much
as could be afforded or in such a case keep on signing To Notes in a number adequate
to what might easily come to be the amoung of the demand, would be
too much for any one hand; perhaps for even a considerable number
of hands; much more for the hand of this great officer of State whose time
is much too valuable to be consumed upon a sort of operation could so ill be spared for mechanical and subaltern occupation <add>operations</add>
for which even mechanism without the lowest degree of human reason might be made since
it has been made sufficient

Instances, it is true in such transactions are
not wanting in which a still much higher character still (the regal) is
occupied and that habitually in the business of signature a similar way. I speak
of Treasury Warrants: but the Sum in these instances is never
otherwise than considerable: nor is the span of it a matter of course issues stands upon its grounds, and many afford matters for deliberation
Nor are they numerous enough to make
any very material encroachment on the Royal Time.

As to the insertion of the word one it may appear
whimsical but it seems to be more impressive and to carry with
it a more conspicuous mark of authenticity than the still which
is most customary in this respect according to which the supposed
narrator is a person altogether unknown. The persons whose
names stand as the name of subscribing witnesses not speaking
of themselves but being spoken of as it were by this stranger.

[X2] [Auditor of the Exchequer]

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::[11] [12] [sic]]]
Box	002	Main Headings	Annuity Notes
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F26
Penner		Watermarks	1798 A<…>
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Frances Wright
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	849
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