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Mr Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money. 2.
The quantity of Letter-press
thus made requisite,
is no objection,
but an advantage.

In the Paper of a Bank Note, the extent of surface is so
simple, and the portion, really necessary for containing the quantity
of matter inserted, is in comparison so small, that after
allowing a quantity of space sufficient for this principal and
essential purpose, there would remain a quantity amply sufficient
for the several collateral purpose above indicated: especially if
the type were a small one, such as those which are commonly
used in Newspaper. So far from being an objection, the increase
thus produced in the quantity of letter-press would be an advantage
because the greater the quantity of Letter-press necessary, the greater
the quantity of Letter-Founder's Stock necessary to the execution of it,
and consequently the greater the expence and danger and consumption
of time, attendant on a plan of criminal imitation, according to
the principles above established. —

Note (b) continued. — 2 (b)
Insufficiency of the advertisements,
in regard to
cutting. —

and that notification has been given of it by a multitude of advertisements,
is what I am sufficiently apprised of: but not being able, at
least without study, to discover this mode by simple inspection upon
the face of the Note, nor in short without recurring to the advertisements
no one of which do I at present know nor without a more or less troublesome
enquiry can I know, where to meet with, these advertisements, how frequently soever
they mat be repeated, constitute but a very inadequate succedaneum to the
direct and simple method here proposed. In the way, the information in question
conveys itself to the mind of every person, without exception, to whom it can be
of use; and at the very time, when it is wanted to be put to use. Confined
to the occasional channel of a Newspaper, or the narrow channel of a
few shop windows, the effect of it (to say nothing of the unnecessary)
expence is not perhaps a hundredth part so great as in the way
proposed. —

Identifier: | JB/003/354/002"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	002	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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