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Show COLOURED WATERMARK 27 to suppose that time would have been given t0 realise the necessary arrangements for makin sufficient quantity for the suppxy of the Bank. No preparations, therefore, or experiments wer e for this object which was considered as the minor point uni flmm a fortnight since, norindeed was any opposition anticipate on this ground since the first o].wym:tmm stated were that the pape was t00 casily made, and not that it was too difficult. ‘The event however, has proved there was a want of due precaution and foret in this want of preparation, for seeing the determined opposition that is made to it i every stage, arrangements for producin the supply ought certainly to have been made and proceeded han in h:md with the main operation of perfecting the paper s the matter now stands this paper has only been produced i npcrfcc( state with the two note moulds. This much, however, ha been ascertained from the experiments that have been tried wit the cight note mould, that it is the breadth of these m and no their length that prevents the man from throwing off = water a broader than the two note mould, and mxghr cqn.\flv well in the pmducnon of the triple paper Tam, therefore, sill convinced that the necessary quantity ma thus be made with very litele additional increase of means at Freefolk. T have no wish, however, to press the matter further on th Bank and Mr. Portal in defiance of such determined oppo on his part if the Commission think fit to rescind their dec find other means of ascertaining for my own satisfaction after having taken so much trouble how far the fabrication of this paper ca be realised on the great scale and at what expense Signed, Witiaxe Conereve Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |