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Annuity Notes

subsidies and imports, would be puzzled if he were to attempt to give
change, from for a £100 Bank Note, from a mass of annuity Notes/part
bearing nearly 3 per cent and part 2 3/8 per cent interest p. 33) consisting
of Standard Notes, Halves, and quarters with a few odd years,
months, and days, interest due on each, even with the assistance
of small change; i:e: notes of 5/3 bearing an interest of 1/512 part of
a farthing per diem

Paper money, never can answer as a substitute for copper
money, till copper is as valuable as gold.

The wear and tear would ruin the paper money mint. A
months circulation, among market women, turnpike keepers, and publicans
would obliterate every clause of these portable contracts, every
receipt for interest every table of computation.

Of 400,000,000 million of Annuity Notes
Supposing them all as good as Bankers Notes
how much would be wanted as a circulating medium?
would the remainder be any thing more than a mere security
for an Annuity?

Its imperfections, in this office, I have already noticed.

If hoarders should prefer Annuity Notes to Bankers paper
& Bankers bills, will not the 4 or 500 Bankers in G. Britain be injured
and intitled to compensation?

If circulators should prefer Annuity Notes to B of England Paper
will not that public body be a sufferer?

Till, however, the Stocks are near par, there seems little probability that

Identifier: | JB/003/362/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	362	Info in main headings field	annuity notes
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	1772
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