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Mr. Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money.—

depending on resemblance
to an individual pattern
and to word the description
accordingly.—

Note, that the mistreatment or production, thus taken for the
subject of prohibition, must in each instance be of such a sort, as after
the warning so given by the law, or rather (if possible) without any such
warning, it will be morally impossible that a man should set about
producing, with any other intention than a criminal one: viz: the
intention of producing mischievous imitation, which it is the object
of the plan to prevent.—To apply this to the cases of a Bank Note,
framed and worded as at present.—

Application of these
two principles or the-
-in the present plan-

The indication that would be afforded by a plate, fabrication
in imitation of a Bank Note of the present form, answers this
purpose, as far as it goes, as effectually as can be wished. Nothing
but the very words employed in a genuine Note could afford the Forger
only the smallest hope of succeding in the fabrication of a spurious one
and, supposing a plate, with these words upon it, to be found in the
possession of any uncommissioned individual, no evidence could be
more perfectly conclusive of the existence of the criminal intention in
question, on the part of the individual at least by whom the plate
was made to exhibit these words, whatsoever possible circumstances
might be adducible, in exculpation of him in whose possession
the plate was found.—

.7.
-in the proposed plan

But in addition to the one source of obstruction and detection thus afforded
by the existing plan, the proposed plan affords eight other impediments
of the same sort; all which however are comprizable under two
heads: viz: those which regard the Portraits, and those which regard
the Types. The business is, so to order both these articles, as that
for the purpose of prohibition and punishment, and that without
peril

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	347	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	of forgery in the way of fabrication - application of the principles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1757
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