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Excerpt from The Writings of William Paterson, Vol. 2 of 3: Of Dumprieshirs, and a Citizen of London; Founder of the Bank of England, and of the Darien Colony There were also, in the third place, an accommodation provided by the magistrate, that in case any money more were left in the bank there should be those that should receive, keep, and deliver it out again, as the owners should from time to time appoint. And for security of what money any man should leave in the Bank, the whole city was, by the magistrate's authority, engaged to make it good. 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.