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upon, The public Nation will be deprivd of that share of advantage they ought to derive from a very heavy expenditure of Public money.
in their Favor it must be allowd, that they are intrusted with all Bullion to be Coind without any other check upon them than the Books of the officers who deliver it & are deemd Responsible for the Return of the whole in Coin & in Scissel to the Last Grain, bearing all waste & Loss; To their honor it is that there is not on the records of the mint any Record instance of their having Faild to Repay at the Scales Every Loss which has appeard in the weighing, in whatever manner it may have have happend been incurrd, they have often met with Considerable Losses, it is not long Since a Laborer in their employ Carried off a large Sum in Gold Bullion, but they never have in this or in any other instance, Petitiond for Abatement, but have paid at the Scale Every deficiency of weight to the Last Grain
Their Gains are very Precarious, from the time when the Bank was restraind from Paying in Species to that of the Issue of Bank tokens they had little to do, except the Bank tokens for Ireland & were sometimes for years together almost without