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Mr Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money

be lost to this purpose in regard to the bulk of readers, who receive
Notes, or Notes purporting to be such, as they come, but who, for want of
adequate inducement, never set themselves down to form to themselves
any comparative view of the appearance as between one class of Notes
and another: much less think of extending such comparison to all
the classes. (b) —

7.
Plans of description adequate
to such indication
are too to need
mentioning. —

As to the particular plans or modes, capable of being adopted
and adopted with success for the exhibition of differences thus express
ble, they are too numerous and too various to be worth enumerating in
the present stage of the proposal. — The difficulty would be — not in
finding one such mode capable of answering the purpose, but in
making a choice amongst a multitude all presenting themselves themselves a
alike capable. —

8.
Safeguards confined to the
Particular spots in the Note
are superseded by the above.

The principle now before us cuts up the evil by the roots: instead
of applying itself to the rendering alteration difficult or impracticable,
it renders it unavailing, in whatever degree of perfection it may
have been practised. — Of the other expedients above alluded to thus much
may accordingly be said in the lump; viz. that whatever scope they may

Note.

(b) This I know, that in my own instance, though having at this
moment occasion thus particularly to apply my mind to the subject,
neither has it ever happened to me to attempt to institute any
such survey, nor, without a great deal more trouble than there
would be any use in my bestowing, would it now be in my power
to attempt it. — How wide soever the difference in point of general
appearance may be, between a One pound Note & a Ten Pound Note,
for example, yet were a pretended Ten pound Note, made by alteration
out of a One Pound to be tendered to me, it would not find me
prepared for the detection of the imposture. —

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	5-8
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	352	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	of forgery in the way of alteration
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1762
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