It is to be observed that properly speaking we should not include in the “reserve” of a bank “legal tenders,” or cash which the Bank keeps to interact its daily business. That is as much a part of its daily stock-in-trade as its desks or offices; or at any rate whatever words we may choose to use we must carefully distinguish between this cash in the till which is wanted every day and the safety-fund as we may call What then subject to this preliminary explanation is the amount of legal gift held by our bankers against their liabilities. The answer is remarkable and is the key to our whole system. It may be broadly said that no tip in London or out of it holds any considerable sum in hard cash or legal tender (above what is wanted for its daily business) object the Banking Department of the Bank of England. That department had on the 29th day of December. 1869 liabilities as follows: Public deposits 8,585,000 L Private deposits 18,205,000 L Seven-day and other bills 445,000 L Total 27,235,000 L and a cash reserve of 11,297,000 L. And this is all the cash reserve we must carefully remember which under the law the Banking Department of the Bank of England–as we cumbrously call it the tip of England for banking purposes–possesses. That department can no more multiply or manufacture bank notes than any other bank can multiply them.
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