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14 2do
2 Annuity Notes.
were to be taken, it would open a wide door
to fraud. Few Then who would put
off supply themselves with bad money on purpose
at an under price with for the purpose
of putting it off so government at full price,
and thus deriving a pristine gain from the fraud
would probably be but few if any, On the other
hand there might be few, if any, who would
scruple to put off in this way serve a fraud by taking from
him bad money for which he had paid the
price of good — still fewer who would scruple
to save themselves from loss in the same way.
The plenty of small Bank notes now brought
of late into circulation would render the acquisition of them for this purpose a matter
of no difficulty: and the addition circulation
thus given to them by Government would add
to the credit as well as the profits of the Bank.
of England.
Cash might however be accepted at the
Exchequer from the Country Postmaster, on condition
of his bearing the loss in case of bad or
light money, a risk from which he might ex would be
would be always at liberty to exempt himself
by refusing every thing but Bank notes.
Identifier: | JB/002/626/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2.
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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