The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 19John Ballantyne and Company, 1828 - Europe |
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... Bank Charter and Promissory Notes Bills . -Bank Advances for Relief of Commercial Distress . - Local payment of Bank Notes . - Paper Currency of Scotland . - Usury Laws , CHAP . III . The Budget . Management of the Public Debt ...
... Bank Charter and Promissory Notes Bills . -Bank Advances for Relief of Commercial Distress . - Local payment of Bank Notes . - Paper Currency of Scotland . - Usury Laws , CHAP . III . The Budget . Management of the Public Debt ...
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... Bank of England was most to blame . Un- der the present system the Bank was a machine , the effects of which must necessarily be mischievous . The Bank was much too vast to be rightly con- ducted . If their lordships looked back to what ...
... Bank of England was most to blame . Un- der the present system the Bank was a machine , the effects of which must necessarily be mischievous . The Bank was much too vast to be rightly con- ducted . If their lordships looked back to what ...
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... banks . All country bank notes must be stamped , and it appeared from a return from the Stamp office , that in the years 1821 , 1822 , and 1823 , the average number of notes stamped in each year was four millions and one or two hundred ...
... banks . All country bank notes must be stamped , and it appeared from a return from the Stamp office , that in the years 1821 , 1822 , and 1823 , the average number of notes stamped in each year was four millions and one or two hundred ...
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... Bank of England , as their charter now stood . It was im- possible for any man who considered the extent of the public transactions of this great kingdom , not to see that a single chartered banking company , however well constituted ...
... Bank of England , as their charter now stood . It was im- possible for any man who considered the extent of the public transactions of this great kingdom , not to see that a single chartered banking company , however well constituted ...
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... banks had be- come necessary , in consequence of the exclusive privileges of the Bank of England and the growing wants of the public . And from these very circum- stances , the country banks had been so constituted , that they were ...
... banks had be- come necessary , in consequence of the exclusive privileges of the Bank of England and the growing wants of the public . And from these very circum- stances , the country banks had been so constituted , that they were ...
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