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Art. 17. Note
Annuity Notes
As individuals may have their reasons for
wishing to exchange in this way their respective
notes , so may Government have its reasons for
compilling such exchange either in the instance
of this or that individual note , or in any
the largest masses . Taking into consideration
the changes that time may of itself , may
produce in a material of so v soft and then
a texture , without the aid of negligence , it
may reason in point of justice to call
it in it in gratis at the end of a certain number of
years more especially in the instance of the
silver and and other small notes which which
by the rapidity of their circulation possess from time to time are apt
to pass through such hands as by their
number alone , exclusively independently of bad
