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Thoughts

On the means of preventing Forgery, in the case of
Paper Money: particularly Bank of England Notes. –
§ 1. Of Forgery in the way of Fabrication:- particular Safeguards
proposed.

Forgery in general, and of Bank Paper in particular,
is committed either in the way of Fabrication, or in the way of Alteration.(a)
The distinction is a fundamental one: the plan of operation, to be
pursued in combating the criminal enterprize, being altogether different in the two cases.

To begin with the case of Fabriaction: being the case which
in my view of the matter presents the greatest difficulty. I will state
in the first place the particular expedients that have occurred to me by
this means, the general principles, by which these expedients were suggested,
will place themselves in the clearer point of view.

1. In the room of the Emblematical figure, exhibit the head of some
real person: – some Officer of the Corporation: either temporary such as
the Governor; or permanent, such as the Cashier: the Engraving to be executed
by the most skilful Artist whose services can be engaged.†

2. As a means of reducing the expence (resulting from the
want

(a) Fabrication where a Paper Note, which never passed through the hands
of the Bank, is made to assume the appearance of a Bank Note: alteration,
or (as it may be termed) falsification, where, in a real Bank Note,
a fictitious larger sum is contrived to be substituted to a genuine
smaller sum.

Identifier: | JB/003/342/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	342	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	thoughts on the means of preventing forgery, in the case of paper money: particularly bank of england notes / of forgery in the way of fabrication: particular safeguards proposed
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	"mr b is not quite certain with regard to the correctness of the copy, not having examined it himself"	ID Number	1752
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