The manufactory scheme. : In consequence of the scheme which is inserted in the book of records of the Manufactory Company, proposing a medium of trade and business by an emission of notes of hand, or bills on land security, redeemable by the manufactures or produce of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay; the directors (chosen by the subscribers thereto on July 30th last) have unanimously this day agreed on the following articles ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manufactory Company.

Contributor:

Auchmuty, Robert, 1687-1750.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40197.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land banks--Massachusetts.

Land banks.

Banks and banking--Massachusetts.

Banks and banking.

Commerce.

Bills of exchange.

Money.

Currency question.

Massachusetts.

Currency question--Massachusetts.

Money--Massachusetts.

Bills of exchange--Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1740]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Caption title.

Signed on pages [4] by Robert Auchmuty and eight others, directors and signers of the bills. Dated: Suffolk, ss. Boston, December 4th 1740.

For an account of the Manufactory Company, often referred to as the Land Bank, see Davis, Andrew McFarland. Currency and banking in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, New York, 1901, part II, chapter VII.

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