Table exhibiting a plan for the reduction of the six per cent. stock of the United States, agreeably to the right reserved to the public in the act making provision for the debt of the United States.

Format:

Book

Government document

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debts, Public--United States--Early works to 1800.

Debts, Public.

Securities--United States--Early works to 1800.

Securities.

Finance, Public--United States--History--1789-1801--Early works to 1800.

Finance, Public.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (former owner) (RBC copy)

Kuhl, Henry, 1764-1856 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 27 x 44 cm

Fingerprint:

4.24 2322 2120 1918 (S) 1794 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1794]

Notes:

Twelve columns of figures, showing reduction of the original capital after interest payments and reductions.

Dated: December 27th, 1794.

Place of publication supplied by Evans.

Broadside.

Local Notes:

RBC copy is no. 23 in a collection of 50 18th-century U.S. government documents, most by Alexander Hamilton and a few by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and others, bound in 2 volumes (13 in the first volume and 37 in the second, including two manuscripts).

RBC copy formerly owned by Alexander Hamilton, with ms. contents list of v. 1 in his hand on last blank leaf in volume. Cf. C.B. Clapp, "Alexander Hamilton's reports" in The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941), p. 52-64.

RBC copy has autograph of Henry Kuhl on title leaf of first work in v. 1.

Cited in:

Evans 27954

ESTC W13173

Clapp, C.B. "Alexander Hamilton's reports." In The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941): 52-64, v. 2, no. 8

OCLC:

476130718

Online:

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