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To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America; : the subscribers, printers and others, of the city of Baltimore, who feel themselves affected by the additional duty which they learn is contemplated to be laid on imported printing types, beg leave respectfully to represent ...
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 1808.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--United States.
- Book industries and trade.
- Printing industry.
- Printing industry--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Book industries and trade--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Printing industry--Law and legislation--United States.
- Printing industry--United States.
- Printing industry--Maryland--Baltimore.
- Tariff--United States.
- Tariff.
- Type and type-founding--United States.
- Type and type-founding.
- Maryland--Baltimore.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Memorials (Legal)
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
- Place of Publication:
- [Baltimore] : [publisher not identified], [1802]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Arguing that a duty on imported type would "injure, if not ruin," the printing business in the United States, and "materially injure" other branches of the book trade, including papermaking, bookbinding, and bookselling.
- Signed: Warner & Hanna [and twenty-six other corporate and individual printers].
- The American Antiquarian Society copy is a negative photostat; the original, held by the National Archives, is additionally signed in ms.: Baltimore 27th February 1802. Certified to be a true copy from the original Jas. Rice, chairman. Matthew Brown, secry.
- Text printed in two columns.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 1808).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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