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§. 5. Plan for a Bank Note. —
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§. 5. Plan for a Bank Note, with a view to both branches
of Forgery. — 1.
General Plan for a
Bank Note &c according
to the above indications —

Upon the whole, the Plan of construction suggested by the
above principles for the matter of a Bank Note would, be distributed
into four paragraphs or compartments (a) —

1. Tenor —

1. In the upper compartment, the words of the engagement itself
as worded at present, with the dates and signatures employed at present,
from an engraving on Copper Plate as at present; but accompanied by
a Portrait of the Governor, also from an Engraving on Copper as proposed,
with the legend as proposed. — The situation of the Portrait, either at the
left hand corner of the Paper, at the beginning of the line, as at present,
or in the center of the compartment. —

2 — Warning against
Forgery. —

2. In the second compartment from the top, the warning against
Forgery, expressed in letter-press as above: with the Portrait of the Cashier;
situated, as before, either on the left hand or in the center. —

3. Classes distinguished. —

3. In the third compartment from the top, a notification of the different
classes of Notes; as above proposed, expression of their several characteristic
differences in point of appearance. —

4. Indication of
cutting.

4. Lastly, in a fourth compartment might be exhibited, a notice
descriptive of the method to be observed in cutting a Note in two, for the
purpose of conveyance: for which purpose a line marking the track for the
knife or scissors, together with ten or twelve words to point out the use of
the line, would be sufficient. (b) —

Note.

(a) In case of such a division the course of the lines might instead of running
parallel to the longer side of the Paper, as at present, run parallel to the shorter side. —

(b) That the form of the Note has been modified for this purpose, and

Identifier: | JB/003/354/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1, 2, 2(b)
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	354	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	plan for a bank note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1764
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