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Mr. Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money. — 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 on 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 Forgery any 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 eschibit 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 escisting 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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