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The mode of the entry in the Register
is the last topic that comes to be considered, with a
view to the prevention. The only species of forgery
to which this part of the Note is exposed is
that which consists in simple obliteration. By th
expunging the entry made of a year for which
interest has been received a man would might gain
the amount of the interest of that year: by —
from the addition of a year nothing could ensue
but loss.
Shall the entry be made by writing or by stamp?
The use of the stamp presents itself as being rather
more expeditious, more definite in its extent where
in a case where a slight aberration would might be productive of
confusion, and capable of being more effectually secured
against obliteration.
In this view a various indications present
themselves, mechanical, chemical or — such as separately or conjunctively,
promise to be fully adequate to the purpose.
1. The mark of the year might be made without
colour by a concave stamp, by which as in those employed
for by the Stamp Office, the letters shall
rise into protuber forced up.
To prevent reve the restitutio in integrum the
more effectually, the impression might be garnished
here and there with small punctures,
too distant from each of other and too slight
to affect the durability of the paper.