Historical Sketches of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies, Količina 1W. E. Woodward, 1865 |
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Historical Sketches of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies: Prior to ... Henry Phillips Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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Abel Evans act of assembly act passed amount April assent August bank bills dated bills emitted bills issued bills of credit Britain burnt certificates Charles circulation coin Colony of Rhode committee congress continental money counterfeit creation of paper creditors Crown Point date of note debt December depreciation emission enacted England equal exchange expedition February gold governor interest Isaac James January Jersey Joseph Joseph Wharton July June legal tender legislature loan office lords of trade March March 25 Massachusetts Morris notes issued October ordered ounce outstanding paid paper bills paper currency paper money payment Pennsylvania Peyton Randolph Philadelphia Philip Johnson present province Randolph and Robert received redeemed redemption Resolution Rhode Island Robert Carter Nicholas September session shillings signed by John signed by Peyton signers silver sinking Stephen Hopkins sterling taxes thereof Thomas thousand pounds tion treasury notes United Virginia Wharton William
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Stran 173 - Plantations,' be, and the same is hereby repealed. " And be it further enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, That...
Stran 173 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses...
Stran 149 - ... America are generally engaged in the preservation of their own rights and liberties, among which, that of personal freedom must be considered as the greatest ; as those who are desirous of enjoying all the advantages of liberty themselves, should be willing to extend personal liberty to others ; — " Therefore, be it enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that for the future, no negro or mulatto slave shall be brought into this colony; and in case any slave...
Stran 69 - ... being managed by means of paper bills of credit, of which there are about £60,000 now current, and in the year 1741 it will begin to sink and grow yearly less, but the whole quantity, I am told, is not sufficient for the uses of the province, and that the people will soon be very pressing for...
Stran 131 - UPON the 30th of May last, the House of Commons, presented an humble Address to the King, desiring, that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to give Directions, that there be laid before that House, in the next Session of...
Stran 150 - The Possessor of this Bill shall be paid by the Treasurer of this colony, TWENTY FOUR SHILLINGS. Lawful Money, by the 18th day of August. 1778, which Bill shall be received for the aforesaid sum. in all payments at the Treasury and in all other Payments by order of the General Assembly.
Stran 21 - That it is necessary that the paper money of this province should be reemitted for a farther time. "That there is a necessity of a farther addition to the paper money at present current by law within this province. " That there is a necessity, that a sum should be struck to exchange the ragged and torn bills now current by law in this province." Upon which resolutions, they afterwards ordered in a bill for striking forty thousand pounds, to be made current and emitted on loan, and for reemitting...
Stran 64 - ... petitions and applications have been made to his excellency, the governor of this province, by the freeholders, merchants, and inhabitants of the same, setting forth that the silver and gold, formerly current in this province, is almost entirely exported to Great Britain and elsewhere, and thereby the many hardships which his majesty's good subjects within this colony lie under for want of a currency of money...
Stran 14 - Obligations as arise from the Act of Parliament made in the sixth Year of the late Queen ANNE, "for ascertaining the Rates of Foreign Coins in the Plantations of America.
Stran 148 - An act to regulate and restrain paper bills of credit in His Majesty's colonies or plantations of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, in America; and to prevent the same being legal tenders in payment of money...