Show BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES always fresh and clean as they are issued only once there is as great a difre difference rence between he systems of issuing and redeeming the totes of the pank dank of ED ens land and of the banks of the united states as there la is in the appearance of the no notes es themselves the r note is somewhat longer and much broader than ours olits is of rough white paper with ragged edges and Is printed ou on one side only with I a few words and with no pictures picture or designs while ours are completely cov ered 0 on 11 both sides with vignette and lathe w work ork our notes are issued again and again until they become so worn that they tire are no longer serviceable A mink bank of england note Is never issued more than once every note that comes in Is canceled nt at once and then it Is stored away with ith other canceled nolos nole to be preserved orvid for a certain period when it is destro destroyed Ned by burning it takes many clerks to keep the record of notes issued and paid and so accurately is this work done that the date when ben any note was I issued the person rec receiving efting it the time lime uben it was paid into the bank and by whom can be ascertained from the lie books it if the time was within five years the note itself can be produced llan many are the stories of attempts to counterfeit these notes which have always been failures As the average time between the issue and the payment of the notes Is only five or six days the fact that a counterfeit Is in circulation is known almost at once and the system of english bankers and merchants of keeping the numbers of the notes received and paid gives the clew whereby the offender Is quickly apprehended exchange |