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Though no paper money, therefore, was allowed to be issued, but

for such sums as would confine it pretty much to the circulation

between dealers and dealers; yet partly by discounting real bills

of exchange, and partly by lending upon cash-accounts, banks and

bankers might still be able to relieve the greater part of those

dealers from the necessity of keeping any considerable part of

their stock by them unemployed, and in ready money, for answering

occasional demands. They might still be able to give the utmost

assistance which banks and bankers can with propriety give to

traders of every kind.