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§. 6. Limits to compleat success. II Foreign Forgeries. —
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How the pre-existing
Stock might be called in —

characteristic marks, might accordingly be advertised, accompanied by
an intimation that all numbers not comprized in such list cannot
but be spurious: and in this state of things it might perhaps be
not inconsistent with the credit of the Company (proper powers being obtained
from Parliament for the purpose) to fix a day, after which payment
of such specified numbers should either be altogether refused, or not
made but upon personal examination submitted to, or collateral security
given, or other such burthensome and inconvenient terms. —

In regard to any class of Notes thus meant to be discountenanced,
warning might also be given in the way of advice, recommending
it to individuals not to receive any Note of such a class without first
applying to the Bank to be informed whether any genuine Note bearing
the No of that Note be in effect outstanding, and whether the
dates and signatures to it be correct. —

In the instance of any class of Notes thus discountenanced,
attempts in the way of Forgery seem little to be apprehended:
the chance of passing any such Note would be too precarious; the
danger of detection and punishment would be too great.

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II. Comparative weakness
of all Safeguards, as
against Forgeries committed
abroad. —

II. The other circumstance is — the impossibility of extending the
effect of the security with equal force to the cases where the place
in which the prohibited art is exercised in a place out of the reach of
British Justice. In France, in Holland, or in Germany, (for example)
the force of the obstacle, opposed by the division and multiplication of
concurrent arts, would not (to whatever length the multiplication
more carried) be by any means so great as in the case where the
scene of action lies on British Ground. So much of the impediment, as

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2-4
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	356	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	limits to compleat success - ii foreign forgeries
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1766
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