Excerpt from Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &amp;C: Together With the Approved Communications and Evidence Upon the Same, Relative to the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes<br><br>The increasing reluctance of Juries to visit with the extreme penalty of the law, a crime, for the prevention Of which no successful precautions have apparently been taken, and the notorious fact, corroborated by evidence produced at several recent trials, that Forged Notes have passed undetected through the scrutiny of the Bank Inspectors, have attracted general attention.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.