(Circular.) Philadelphia, February 8, 1781. : Sir, Your excellency will receive enclosed two important resolves of Congress, of the 3d and 7th instant, recommending it to the several states ... that they vest a power in Congress, to levy, for the use of the United States, a duty of five per cent .. upon all goods, wares and merchandize, of foreign growth and manufacture ... to be appropriated to the discharge ... of the debts ... of the United States, for supporting the present war ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44065.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debts, Public--United States.

Debts, Public.

History.

United States.

Finance--United States.

Finance.

Tariff--United States.

Tariff.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects.

United States--Commerce.

Commerce.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

Providence: : Printed by John Carter., [1781]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Signed: Samuel Huntington, president.

At end: State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. The preceding contains true copies ... Witness, Henry Ward, sec'ry.

Printed in two columns.

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Bristol B5380

Shipton and Mooney 44065

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 897

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