Excerpt from The Bank Charter Act: Ought the Bank of England or the People of England to Receive the Profits of the National Circulation A parliamentary Committee has been appointed to investigate the merits and demerits of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and to report to the House of Commons whether that Act ought to be renewed, modified, or abrogated. Under these circumstances this pamphlet is submitted to public consideration. That law known as the Bank Charter Act is one of a series of monetary enactments commencing in 1816, consolidated in 1819, and complemented in 1854; and those collective measures are erroneously believed by many to have restored the ancient standard of value, the action of which was suspended during the Bank Restriction Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.