Querist by George Berkeley
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great plenty of notes?
243. Qu. Whether this may not be prevented by the gradual and slow issuing of notes, and by frequent sales of lands? 244. Qu. Whether interest doth not measure the true value of land; for instance, where money is at five per cent, whether land is not worth twenty years' purchase? 245. Qu. Whether too small a proportion of money would not hurt the landed man, and too great a proportion the monied man? And whether the quantum of notes ought not to bear proportion to the pubic demand? And whether trial must not shew what this demand will be? 246. Qu. Whether the exceeding this measure might not produce divers bad effects, one whereof would be the loss of our silver? 247. Qu. Whether interest paid into the bank ought not to go on augmenting its stock? 248. Qu. Whether it would or would not be right to appoint that the said interest be paid in notes only? 249. Qu. Whether the notes of this national bank should not be received in all payments into the exchequer? 250. Qu. Whether on supposition that the specie should fail, the credit would not, nevertheless, still pass, being admitted in all payments of the public revenue? |
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