JB/071/168/003

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35 C Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons

Quest. II . Why foreign Coin is put upon the same footing No Matter whether foreign or domestic.

Note

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bad money at the price of genuine. The reason indeed given is
that "the utterers often are the Coiners or in confederacy with them";
but the conviction is not made to depend in any manner upon
the Jury's persuasion of that circumstance. The punishment is
for the first offence Six Months imprisonment; for the Second
Two Years Imprisonment; and for the Third, Death.

Temerity of such Presumption. This statute, as any one may imagine, is not executed.
If it were there are few persons in the nation who might not
be envelopped in the punishment. denounced by it.

With regard to the Copper Coin every body knows that
it is not all uncommon for counterfeit halfpence to be passed
off, not only knowingly but avowedly; since it is not at all
uncommon for people even knowingly to accept them. When
this is the case it is generally owing to the indifference with
which the matter is regarded on both sides, on account of the
triflingness of the sum and the assurance which the acceptor
has of being able to pass off the money to some other person.
This holds good in a less degree with regard to the silver Coin:

Identifier: | JB/071/168/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34 / f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23571
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