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28 June 1801

Observations continued

"I do not comprehend the
learned Baronet "how (p. 46) settlements of
"money could be made by this scheme without
"trouble or expences".

Counter-Observations

I will try if I can afford this satisfaction to the comprehensive The way is not paved for endeavouring to
faculties of the learned Baronets comprehension faculties prevail upon him to bestow upon his comprehension
faculties a degree of and expansion sufficient for this purpose.⊞
⊞ I will try what I
can do (which
to judge from
experience will be
very little) towards
prevailing upon
the comprehensive
faculties of the
learned Baronet
to achieve this enterprize.

If I had said, that all settlements
of money may thus be made by this
means without trouble or expence, I should have
spoken very rashly. said what I did not think mean. Contingencies, with
conditions limitations and restrictions depending on such
contingencies, can not such as are sometimes
found in Settlements, can not be expressed
but by a deed containing words adapted to
each respective purpose. Settlements the object
of which is confined confines itself to the preventing
one certain person from receiving money
without the participation and consent persons consent and participation of another
(to a the husband for example without that of
his the wife, or of a trustee for his the wife) may really
thus be made, without any trouble or expence
worth regarding in such a case and certainly at any
rate with a degree of each, very inconsiderable
indeed, in comparison of what is necessary
in regard to the species of property in question
in its present form of Stock Annuities.⊞ (a)

⊞ (a) Note
The learned Baronet
mentions it among the
obstacles to industry
and frugality among the lower classes,⧺ ⧺ Observations on Friendly Societies p.22.
that the hoards of an
industrious and frugal
wife lies so compleatly
at the mercy of a
dissipated and ungenerous
husband. To
this mischief the
divisibility of the
proposed Annuity Notes
might do what, consistently with the matrimonial engagement, can be done, towards applying a remedy
(perhaps).

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Date_1	1801-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	491	Info in main headings field	alarm
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	verso	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	192100029
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