Excerpt from A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank Act of 1844 and on the Reports of the Committees on the House of Lords and of the House of Commons on the Bank Acts For many years I have been in the habit of watch ing the course of events connected with our present system of banking, and of noting down my remarks as they have occurred. The publication of this trea tise has been delayed from various causes; a great part of it, as far as Chapter XVI. Inclusive, was printed last summer. I then waited to see the Report of the Committee sitting at that time. 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.