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Annuity Notes
Elucidation
[3]
Importance of the
Portrait as a
security against
Forgery — reference
to the §§ so intitled
[3] [ Engraved Head of the Auditor of the Exchequer] For
the use of this mark, see more particularly §§ intitled Securities
against Forgery. On some of the Bank Papers, there
is a female figure, much about this size, representing
Britannia, or some such ideal personage. What this In what
purpose this imaginary portrait is employ'd, whether
for mere ornament, or with a view to any such use
as above, is what I am not informed of. This I know
that the real portrait here proposed or possessed — not
for mere ornament — nor yet for flattery, but for a very
solid and substantial use, to which an imaginary one
would in a very unfair degree, if in any degree, be subservient.
[4]
This the situation
of the existing Exchequer
Office
[4] [S<hi rend="superscript">t Margaret Street Westminster</hi>] This is the situation
of the existing Exchequer Note Bill Office. The situation
assigned to the proposed Annuity Note Office
is of given only by way of illustration, though
possibly perhaps the same Office, and the
)
in the names of different, might of
for both purposes.
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Time
of date
a circumstance
proper to
the head.
[5] [-] [3d March 17 1802] The date of In an article
of Paper Currency, the date being a leading circumstance belonging
to it, there is a convenience in exhibiting
it at the beginning; rather than incidentally, as
the particular occasion for speaking of the day date
happens to occur.
