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Mr Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money
Note (c) continued —

secret marks: and by reason of its faintness, it stands the more expo
to imitation, and accordingly has (it is said) been imitated, by marks
superadded upon the paper, after its coming out of the hands of the
Paper maker. — Apply to this what is said in §5, o
the means of preventing Forgery in the way of alteration, by protuberances
and perforations producible by stamps. — By such means an addit
might it is true be made to the quantity of work to be executed by the crimin
artist, but hardly to the number of distinct arts. — The Engraver of
Puncheons for the Types, would be competent (it is supposed) to the engraving
of all such stamps. —

— Have they not been applied
to Coining? —

If what I have heard be true, one of the principles, laid
in this and the preceding section, has already been carried into pra
in the case of coining. — I have heard it spoken of, and that long ago,
one of the recommendations attending on Mr Bolton's mode of
that the execution of the work requires a degree of force, too great to be
without an apparatus, the working of which is, by one circumstance
other, and in particular by the room it occupies, rendered in a manner
incapable of concealment. —

What is here said in that view, of the instruments or works
which are the productions of the several arts thus pressed into the
might in some cases (the abovementioned one of coining for example)
be applied, perhaps with advantage, <to the operations by which the
in question are exercised, and the works produced. But upon trial
no such advantage (it appeared) could be made in the present case. —

Instead of Paper would
Silk be worth employing?

If instead of Paper, Silk were employed devices, on
foregoing principles, might be worked into the Silk — a loom, widely
different from all other looms, might thus be rendered requisite — and
another very distinct art, or cluster of arts, might thus be pressed into
the service. But after the other safeguards, could it be worth while
to add so very expensive a one? —

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	350	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	f17 / f18
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1760
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