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To the Right Hon
May it Please Your Lordships
In Obedience to your Lordships Order We have made Enquiry whether the Publick
Receivers of Money do pursue the Intent of the Act of t
offered to them in payments. And do find that tis observed in the Exchequer the Custom Houses, the
Excise & in the Stamp Office But upon Enquiry into the practice of the Bank of England we are
Informed that the Recievers there have Orders only to refuse Counterfeit money but not to Cutt it,
for fear of disobliging those who bring their money to be lodged there & who might otherwise
remove it to the Goldsmiths where they are sure to be better treated.
Wee are also credibly Informed that the Receivers l.
the Land Tax, the Dutys on Glass Windows, & on Births, Marriages &c. do not cut the t.
Money offered them in payments ch.
is more practiced in the Country then in Towne. And we are humbly of opinion that the
Trade of Counterfeiting
Receivers of Money were required to putt a Stop to the Currency of it by Cutting is as they
are obliged by Act of parliament
All ch.
I Stanley.
Is. Newton.