Querist by George Berkeley
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counting-houses, one in each province, for converting notes into
specie? 235. Qu. Whether a limit should not be fixed, which no person might exceed, in taking out notes? 236. Qu. Whether, the better to answer domestic circulation, it may not be right to issue notes as low as twenty shillings? 237. Qu. Whether all the bills should be issued at once, or rather by degrees, that so men may be gradually accustomed and reconciled to the bank? 238. Qu. Whether the keeping of the cash, and the direction of the bank, ought not to be in different hands, and both under public control? 239. Qu. Whether the same rule should not alway be observed, of lending out money or notes, only to half the value of the mortgaged land? and whether this value should not alway be rated at the same number of years' purchase as at first? 240. Qu. Whether care should not be taken to prevent an undue rise of the value of land? 241. Qu. Whether the increase of industry and people will not of course raise the value of land? And whether this rise may not be sufficient? 242. Qu. Whether land may not be apt to rise on the issuing too |
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