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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation. : Whereas a scheme for emitting bills or notes by John Colman, Esq; and others, was laid before the Great and General Court .. I have thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, hereby giving notice and warning ... and cautioning ... against receiving or passing the said notes ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the seventeenth day of July 1740. ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40203.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colman, John, 1670-1753?.
- Colman, John.
- Manufactory Company.
- Land banks--Massachusetts.
- Land banks.
- Banks and banking--Massachusetts.
- Banks and banking.
- Bills of exchange.
- Money.
- Currency question.
- Massachusetts.
- Currency question--Massachusetts.
- Money--Massachusetts.
- Bills of exchange--Massachusetts.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : [Printed by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green], [1740]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signed: J. Belcher. By order of his excellency the governour, with the advice of the Council, J. Willard, secr. ...
- Followed by a statement, with 137 signatures, pledging "that we will not, directly or indirectly by our selves or any for us, receive or take any bills emitted on the said scheme, commonly called the Land Bank."
- Imprint determined from mortised initial block (Reilly 439).
- Text in two columns with the signatures in three columns within second column; printed area measures 24.6 x 16.8 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 40203).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B1093
- Shipton and Mooney 40203
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 731
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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