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2355. ECONOMY, An Essential Principle.—[continued].

To expend the public money with the same care and economy
[that] we would practice with our own,
* * * [is one of] the land marks by which
we are to guide ourselves in all our proceedings.—
Second Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 21. Ford ed., viii, 187.
(Dec. 1802)