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Art. 15. Notes 39 Annuity Notes 26 430
the difference in the two cases is matter of accident,
however, and does not arise out of any difference
in the nature of the two cases. The persons employed
under the Post Office as Vendors of Stamps Receivor of Letters are shopkeepers: the
persons employ'd as Receivors of Letters are shopkeepers
of a higher class: +a class not inferior to the other
the ? ? of persons on the persons employ'd in
both instances: the business of the Receiver and Vendor
of transfer is not more implicated, in any degree
/shall/ capable of influencing the point in question
than that of the Receivor? and Forwarder of Letters.
the persons employ'd about the Letters are Shopkeepers:
the persons employ'd about the stamps
are Shopkeepers of the same class, and frequently
the same individuals. It is not more difficult
to count stamps than to count letters: nor to
count money /produced/ found in the one account
than money found in the other. There are indeed
more varieties in the sums ? in account
of stamps than in the same received in
account of letters. So thus the account is in a
proportionate degree more complicated. But in
each /case/ +instance the sum to be taken x on account
of a stamp in x indicator in the frame? of the stamp
itself: so that the xcomplication +difficulty is much less/ is beyond comparison
un less in the instance of this Government
x commodity, than +it is/ in the instance of the xthat
xin the/ private stock (which forms +constitutes the subject-matter
of the dealings) of the meanest? shopkeeper.
