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1 FORGERY. Indirect Legislation.
It is not difficult to preserve from all possibility of fabrication, that sort of alteration,
Bonds and those solemn and deliberate stipulations which, in contradistiction to common Bonds them & to
& notes of hand go in common acceptation by name of Deeds. + + & Wills I mean, to prevent the fabricating of
any false Instrument which shall purport to be a Deed of any future date.
It is for those whom it may concern to determine, whither the cost and apparatus
would be a sufficiently compensated by the security.
I never heard or read of any past an instance of any such folly and audacity, as the forging of
any deed identified purporting to be of the same year in which it was produced; nor do I conceive
that any one can happen in future; if there should, it his not within the compass
of the this following Scheme to prevent it. ++
++ even recent forgeries of recent dates might be prevented checked by each Stationers having affixing one stamp of his own name in running hand characters which consequently admits of peculiarities not to be imitated, & another of moveable types for the day & year. The Stationer and his people could then be forthcoming to contradict it. Some account in such case must be given of the persons of the witnesses of their consideration of the occasion of making it.
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The substance on which it is Deeds are written must be of Paper instead of Parchme
[a circumstance which considered in an oeconomical a commercial view would be an advantage, if
it be true, that the stock of Papers, of which it is made raised at home which cannot be increased for this single purpose is would
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scarce equal to the consumption. In this]
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The paper for this purpose, must be of one single sort made for this purpose, and
for none other
they should number each sheet sold that day
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Instead of what is called the paper mark should be the date of the year in conspicuous characters in which it was
made — with the name of the Maker if it be left free for any one to make it. Forgery
just the name of another maker instead of his own.
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At one corner the Government Stamp to be affixed as at present.
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The duty to be so much as will compensate the present excise & stamp duty upon parchments
offences against persons Numerically determinable Locally.
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At the end of the year what is not disposed of by theeach person of the Trade, to be returned
and if returned within a limited time the duty to be paid him back
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No Deed to be valid but what is written on paper of the same year with
the date.
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The paper mark to be in the middle and no deed to be invalid but where it is
entire.+
To contrive that there shall be ready before hand Paper for the new year - Paper for the new year to be ready to be distributed a Month before + for if Paper without the paper mark were to be used. and where the paper is of exact dimensions or rather to guard against accidents of a piece being torn off out, where it shall appear
to have been of certain dimensions 9 as the paper of this book would appear to be have been of the dimensions that it
tho' yet so large a strip were cut out from one edge on to the middle
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The paper might be made of such a size that when too much of the length was
cut off as was occupied by the Stamps the remainder might be of the same properties
as to the length and breadth with of common Papers and applicable to the same uses.
Thus nothing would be lost but so much as was stamped: nor even that which by reason of
its smallness being sufficiently distinguished from the legal size might be made to serve for various other purposes.
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