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[24][Daily Augmentation Table] From By this Table and
the Yearly Augmentation Table, taken together, but
more especially from the former, the circulation will
receive in a species of assistance, as considerable without which
as it is ever the comutation currency of this species of paper
would be apt to find itself much impeded, and its
aptitude to obtain since as a circulating medium universal currency proportionably
diminished. Exchequer Bills have no such assistance: but as the mass of money property concerned in that
species of paper is so much greater than this (near
16 times as great) the ratio which the trouble of circulation
bears to the value of the object concerned is proportionably so much the
smaller. less considerable: — and the case is the same
in regard to the East India Company's Bonds.
As to the Rules which accompany it, to judge
by the quantity of property magnitude of the to which they relate, the
import of them will appear very trifling: so much so
as scarce scarce to warrant their insertion. But the
use of them — the real use — and that not an inconsiderable
one — is to obviate doubts and disputes.
The matters These are matters which — such as they
are — can not but receive a determination: if not
from positive regulation, custom general agreement and
custom must be the guide: and but before the agreement
can have been settled, a duel of perplexity and ill-employd
discussion would have taken place: and to
crown all, a law suit, having for its object the value
of half a farthing or a farthing, and for its expence
a hundred or two of pounds might have been among
the number of the incidents which the omission would
have produced.