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Catalog Name MINT00294
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Title Report on a proposal by one White for gluing duty marks onto paper rather than impressing it [to certify that the recently-imposed tax on paper for parchments and deeds had been paid]
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Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 15 May 1704
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 211
Wordcount 0
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Newton rejects the method on both aesthetic and practical grounds.||Printed in NC, 4: 415-16. See also the briefer report by Newton to the same effect c. mid-February 1704 (NC, 4: 413).

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