On the Bank Charter Act of 1844
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Greer, Samuel M., 'On the Bank Charter Act of 1844'. - Dublin: Dublin Statistical Society,Vol.1, Part VI, 1856, pp335-349Download Item:
Abstract:
Since the passing of the Bank Restriction Act in 1797, nearly two
hundred statutes have been enacted by the British Parliament,
bearing wholly or partly on the subjects of Banking, Bankers, and
the Currency; being an average of about three acts of parliament
yearly, for a period of sixty years. This prolific legislation seems
to indicate the want of any fixed and definite principle influencing
the legislators during that period, in relation to these matters; and
of any uniform well-matured course of action among our leading
statesmen. And when we examine the comparatively limited
number of their statutes which bear directly upon the regulation of
the currency, we discover that they do not form a harmonious code
developing gradually a well-ordered system, founded upon sound
and fixed principles, and matured by experience. On the contrary,
nearly all the Currency Acts were devised to meet some pressing
emergency, so that they are found to deal with only a portion of
the subject, and to constitute in the aggregate a specimen of legislative
patch-work rather than a consistent and uniform system.
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Read May 5th, 1856
Author: Greer, Samuel M.
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Journal of the Dublin Statistical SocietyVol.1, Part VI, 1856
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