Qu. Whether nevertheless it was not found expedient to provide a
chest of ready cash for answering all demands that should happen to
be made on account of payments in detail?
32. Qu. Whether this offer of ready cash, instead of transfers in
the bank, hath not been found to augment rather than diminish the
stock thereof?
33. Qu. Whether at Venice, the difference in the value of bank money
above other money be not fixed at twenty per cent?
34. Qu. Whether the bank of Venice be not shut up four times in the
year twenty days each time?
35. Qu. Whether by means of this bank the public be not mistress of
a million and a half sterling?
36. Qu. Whether the great exactness and integrity with which this
bank is managed be not the chief support of that republic?
37. Qu. Whether we may not hope for as much skill and honesty in a
Protestant Irish Parliament as in a Popish Senate of Venice?
38. Qu. Whether the bank of Amsterdam was not begun about one
hundred and thirty years ago, and whether at this day its stock be
not conceived to amount to three thousand tons of gold, or thirty
millions sterling?
39. Qu. Whether besides coined money, there be not also great
quantities of ingots or bars of gold and silver lodged in this bank?
40. Qu. Whether all payments of contracts for goods in gross, and
letters of exchange, must not be made by transfers in the
bank-books, provided the sum exceed three hundred florins?
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