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Inserenda
Observations
VI. Miscellanea
§.52
Examples from Passage
111

In the Excise Customs <add>Excise Customs</add> notwithstanding and, probably it is supposed, in
most if not most if not all the other unfranked Departments
private letters, it is said, are somehow or other paid for, by the public, and
the individuals thus exonerated from the charge. But
though that the abuse though bad unseemly in
point of example
can not be very
heavy in its amount
though in the nature of it striking enough from
the nature of it, to the eye, can not rise to any very serious
amount - appears manifest enough from one one may almost say be an amount worth
regarding, since rendered manifest enough from fairly apparent if by one
circumstance. In the year 1785 an officer the Secretary
of the Excise Customs in giving his evidence to the Commissioners
of for Enquiry into the public accounts, Reports III. 367.
speaking
of the bus letters written and received in that
department, and speaking of them in a very for a
purpose which required the number to be represented
as great as it would bear to be, makes it out as amounting to near 9000
in the year. Reckoning the postage for this purpose at 6d per
letter upon an average (for a letter, if an individual
had to pay for it, would not be put into
a cover and made a double letter of) this gives for
the total of the disbursement on the score of letters
received no more than not so much as £ 225 in the year: state
the letters sent at the same sum, this will make
the total of expenditure on the score of postage
short of £ 450. in that If the private correspondence
paid for b over had been over and above
the 9000 letters spoken of, nothing would be to be
inferred from it with regard to the extent of the misapplication:
But it can hardly be supposed that the
disbursement made in the office on the score of postage could escape
the Secretary: his purpose object was to professedly to represent
the quantity of the correspondence as great as it would
bear

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