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to fill these situations,
and if so, the nature and the amount of the security that should be required of them : You also inform
me that Mr Kinder, who has been appointed Master of the Mint, has been called upon to offer a certain amount of securitis .
In explanation I have that at the Royal Mint, where similar offices exist, person with the exception of the Master, is required to give security, nor is security demanded of any Officer in the Brauch Mint at Lydney
to state
no
The chief danger to be
the Operative De-
from the
apprehended in the - partments of
a Mint is
repeated abstraction of small portions of the Bullion, each
and
portion so Small as to come within the possible. - ficiencies of manufacture, and
legitimate de-
therefore
therefore not calculated to excite immediate suspicion. The abstraction of any material quantity of Bullion at once, (particularly Lilver Bullion), would be difficult, owing to the daily balonces struck, and the precaution taken to have kullion in stock always under the joint charge of two or more persons. The small losses referred to could never come
considerable aggregate
а
to
form with the exercise of proper vigi- -lance
the part of the Stead
on
the Establishment. In the event
a
few.
of a discovery of a train of such losses, it is probable that instances only, themselves trifling amount. could be legally
in
substantiated
and made the
one
ground
of a claim against any A Bond of Security for a con- siderable sum would not probably be of much value to Government
in
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