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if it Shall then be determind to take as much Seignorage out of the Silver Coin as will secure it from being melted In Case of any temporary & sudden rise in the Price of the metal in Bullion. This Reserve with the savings which the new machine will create in the processes of Lamellating Striking &c will Establish a Fund sufficient it is Presumed to Place all persons who work in the Mint on a Liberal & satisfactory Establishment, as well as to defray the Expence of bringing Counterfeiters to justice, an article at Present very inadequately provided for & it may not be improper to mint also, that if the it can be made, as it clearly ought to be, an establishd usage of Government, that all Seals of office Private as well as public should be act engravd by the Principal die striker of H.M. Mint & his assistants, a very Respectable incidental provision could be made for him that important officer as a Spur to his Exertions without expence to the nation & those articles also, the impressions of Some of which are not seldom occasionaly Subjected to the Criticism of well informd foreigners, will be placd put on the Same Respectable Footing as that as on which the Coin of the Realm will then be placd.