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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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