Catalogue Entry: MINT00294

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).

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]