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§. 4. Of Forgery in the way of Alteration. —
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may afford, for the application of mechanical contrivance or chemical
science, they occupy but a subordinate station in the scale of
practical importance. (c) —
Note.
(c) It was with these however that I set out a great many
years ago: — and of these a considerable variety had presented itself to
me, each of them promising to be of itself adequate to the intended
purpose. —
I will subjoin an extremely summary but comprehensive
view of them, rather for curiosity than use. —
I Expedients of a Mechanical nature. —
8(c)
Safeguards thus
superseded. —
1. Mechanical —
2. Chemical —
1. Employing a stamp in one or more places, for framing the
letters expressive of the sum. — Colour might be used with the stamp,
not so much by way of security against obliteration (it being but a
precarious one) as to render the letters more conspicuous in common use. —
The protuberance produced by the stamp could not (it is supposed) be
reduced for the purpose of falsification:
Identifier: | JB/003/353/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3. |
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manual of political economy |
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of forgery in the way of alteration |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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1798 am |
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