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Had this Admission not been postponed to the Clause, in which
for want of a better Answer you have charged us with Unfairness, it
might perhaps have prevented it, for it is not easy to conceive how
any one who would admit our Position could dream of accusing us
of Disingenuity, because we enumerated as you allow, the Services
required of the Commissioners, and exactly set down the Reward
given them, and then by comparing their Services and Reward with

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35

May 4

the Services and Reward of the Agents concluded that the Rule we
had laid down had not been regarded

But you are pleased to say " that the Commissioners of the Loan
Office, under the first Paper Currency Act receive a Salary of eighty
Pounds -p. Annum by the £40000 Act they have an Addition of £10 :
p Annum and that they are assisted by a Clerk who has also the
same Salary " — tis very true they have, & 'tis as true that they deserve
every Farthing of what they are entitled to by the Services they
perform under those Laws, and we are apt to think You would be
of that Opinion were you in their Situation how light so ever you
may make of the Merit of these Gentlemen who have given a large
Security for the due Execution of the Trust reposed in them, and are
by the necessary & troublesome Duties of their Station obliged to
employ so much of their Time in the Service of their Country.
That the Commissioners of the Loan Office will have more than
twice the Trouble in performing the Services required by the Bill
that would fall upon the Agents, that the Trust reposed in them is
much more considerable and important than that which you place in
the Agents, and that the Reward to each Agent is above 33 : Times
greater /allowing the same Sum to the Agents for employing a Clerk
that you do to the Clerk of the Commissioners for his Trouble under
this Bill/ than that which is given by the Bill to each of the Com-
missioners you must admit; where f or it appears to Us that your
Partiality is not to be palliated, and our Objections remain un-
answered.
We are not in the least afraid that our Objection will appear in
the Light you would wish it to do, and tho' you endeavour to give
an ill Impression of it by giving it a hard Name when you have not
been able to answer it, we are inclined to think that the Resentment
you have expressed will appear to all sensible and impartial Persons
/who must see and think that we could not have proceeded with more
Candour in stating our Objection than in the Method we took of
using your own Words without Addition or Diminution/ to have
been excited by our full Detection of this very great Partiality in
your Bill: But the Agents it seems are to employ a Clerk to assist

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them in their Duty, it is very probable they will, and 'tis as certain
that if they do they will be eased in the principal Part of their Busi-
ness, that of keeping regular Accounts, but let us suppose that the
Clerk of the Agents will expect a Salary equal to the Reward given

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