[Copyist’s hand: part of a booklet, comprising folios 341 to 357]

nd [wm 1798]

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§.5. Plan for a Bank Note, with a view to both branches of Forgery. –

[marginal heading:] 1. General Plan for a Bank Note &c according to

the above indications –

Upon the whole, the Plan of construction suggested by the above principles for

the matter of a Bank Note would, be distributed into four paragraphs or

compartments.(a) –

[marginal heading:] 1. Tenor

1. In the upper compartment, the words of the engagement itself as worded at

present, with the dates and signatures employed at present, from an engraving on

Copper Plate as at present; but accompanied by a Portrait of the Governor, also

from an engraving on Copper as proposed, with the legend as proposed - The

situation of the Portrait, either at the left hand corner of the Paper, at the

beginning of the line, as at present, or in the center of the compartment.

[marginal heading:] 2 – Warning against Forgery.

2. In the second compartment from the top, the warning against Forgery, expressed

in letter-press as above: with the Portrait of the Cashier; situated, as before,

either on the left hand or in the center.

[marginal heading:] 3. Classes distinguished.

3. In the third compartment from the top, a notification of the different classes

of Notes; as above proposed, expressive of their several characteristic

differences in point of appearance.

[marginal heading:] 4. Indication of cutting.

4. Lastly, in a fourth compartment might be exhibited, a notice descriptive of

the method to be observed in cutting a Note in two, for the purpose of

conveyance: for which purpose a line marking the track for the knife or

scissors, together with ten or twelve words to point out the use of the line,

would be sufficient.(b)

Note.

(a) In case of such a division the course of the lines might instead of running

parallel to the longer side of the Paper, as at present, run parallel to the

shorter side.

(b) That the form of the Note has been modified for this purpose

and