JB/169/178/004

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What concerns me to thinkreflect on is, that at any rate more
or less of the public money be given in away, and
in a certain sense for nothing, and even more of it, under the arrangement
to which I should gain the preference, than has been given at present
Had no such su as £1000 been given to the
spurious inventor, I must confess I see no adequate justification
for giving any such sum to the real one: but one
such sum having been given unjustly (though with very pure
intentions and from any honourable motives, yet as it turns
out unjustly) another such sum or something equivalent seems absolutely separate
necessary to rectify the injustice. The forth To give the first £1000 was notfar from necessary to the promoting of the
object of the establishmentpurpose of the Board<add>institution in question:- the</add> was taken for the encouragement of Agriculture but to withhold the second, would
be to counteract them. The giving the first was an injury
done to the public by mistake: not the persisting in not

Identifier: | JB/169/178/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1	1795-10-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field	anderson and elkington lett. ii
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56998
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