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Excerpt from The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical, Vol. 12: From the Invasion by Julius C�sar to the Year 1846; XXIII-XXIV
Gencies of the public service and that therefore it was preper to continue the measures already taken, for such time and under such limitations as should seem expedient to Parliament. The Commons having resolved themselves into a committee of the whole House to take this report into consideration, Pitt moved for a bill to continue and confirm for a limited time the restriction of the issue of specie b the Bank of Eng land; and, after various clauses ha been added, chiefl by ministers themselves, this bill was passed. The bank was to be authorised to issue specie to the amount of for the accommodation of private bankers and traders; and saving and except to the army and navy, who were to be paid in cash, bank notes were t� be a legal tender to all. The government immediately guaranteed a further loan of for our ally the em ror. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.