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Safety Cheques . 
cheque of this kind, and have therefore no right to say that 
it admits of being tampered with. But, supposing that, like 
Mr. Nesbit’s, it is absolutely secure — and it cannot be more 
so— how do. the two compare for convenience and simplicity ? 
It is obvious that each layer of Nowlan’s cheque will require 
at least as much time, trouble, and expense in printing as 
an entire cheque on the Nesbit system, and after all comes 
the cementing together ! A word as to this same cementing 
process : We find Mr. Nowlan saying that the cement used 
must, on the application of moisture ( i.e ., for the attempted 
separation of the two sheets), induce spreading or blurring 
of the pigments, &c., and thus spoil the cheque. But if 
this is the case, what will happen when the wet cement is 
first applied to the sheets in order to fix them together ? 
Will not blurring or spreading at once take place ? 
Reserving, however, all questions of this kind, we con- 
tend that any man capable of understanding the fadts of 
the case will at once assign the palm of merit to Mr. Nesbit’s 
process as compared with any other as yet known. 
