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The number No on the note being the distinction
mark and the only distinguish distinctive
mark by which an
each individual note is
distinguished denominated from all others of the same value,
it th becomes the more particularly necessary that
this mark should be inserted as well into
the Body of the Note as into the Head Piece.
On this occasion it will rest for consideration
whether the series of the numbers for
this purpose shall take its commencement
from the first note of the whole mass of currency
or from the first note of that part
only of the mass which is composed of notes
of the same value: or whether both these orders
of numeration shall be employed together.
The latter course seems unexceptionable, and
may have its use: each of service in this by this
case each of the two numbers will operate
as a check upon the currency of the other.
since by this means each note will have
two criterions of identity instead of one, and an
accidental error in one of the two numbers may
receive it's correction from the other.
If the o In another plan bu
In any another plan the reos space reserved
for the insertion of numerical figures will require
to be very ample, if the series desired so low
as to embrace the Silver Notes. The six penny
Notes alone, if issued to the amount of a million
of pounds, will require in the highest numbers no
fewer than eight places of figures.