To the public : On the 17th day of May, 1781, the following plan was submitted to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled: Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.

Contributor:

Bank of North America.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--United States.

Banks and banking.

United States.

National banks (United States).

Finance--United States.

Finance.

Broadsides.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Penn Provenance:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (former owner)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 42 x 34 cm

Other Title:

Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America.

Fingerprint:

d.or g,b- or1. d,t: (S) 1781 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1781]

Notes:

Followed by the resolves of Congress, dated May 26, 1781, approving the plan, and explanations.

Signed and dated: Robert Morris. Philadelphia, May 28, 1781.

At foot: We, the subscribers, having read the above plan ... sign our names, and opposite thereto, affix the number of shares for which we subscribe ...

Text in three columns.

Broadside.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on verso which reads "Proposal for a Bank 1781".

Culture Class Collection copy acquired in 1903 as part of the Benjamin Franklin Papers.

Cited in:

Bristol, B5311

Shipton & Mooney, 44060

Shipton & Mooney, 43999

ESTC, W8591

Wolf, E. Library of Benjamin Franklin, 2375

Contains:

United States. Continental Congress. By the United States in Congress assembled, May 26, 1781.

OCLC:

173488104