A report of the important hearing on the memorial of the New England Coal Mining Company for encouragement from the state and on the numerous petitions of the freeholders in aid of the same : before the select special committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations : together with the report of the committee unanimously adopted by the Assembly in favor of the prayer of the memorialists and petitioners and of a geological and agricultural survey of the state in 1838.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhode Island. General Assembly.

Contributor:

New England Coal Mining Company.

Whipple, John, 1784-1866.

Cook, Willis, 1803-1882.

Clark, Samuel.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal mines and mining--Rhode Island.

Coal mines and mining.

Coal trade--Rhode Island.

Coal trade.

Coal--Rhode Island.

Coal.

Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania.

New England Coal Mining Company.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 148, [1] p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Report of the important hearing on the memorial of the New England Coal Mining Company for encouragement from the state and on the numerous petitions of the freeholders in aid of the same

Place of Publication:

New-England [i.e., Cumberland, R.I.?. : s.n.], 1838.

Notes:

"Members of the committee. John Whipple, Esquire, of Providence, chairman. Willis Cook, Esquire, of Cumberland, Samuel Clark, Esquire, of Smithfield."--P. 1.

"Resolved, That all evidence, documents and arguments, submitted to the select special committee, be published, at the expense of the company, for the use of the legislature ... by order of the president and directors. Benjamin Fessenden, secretary and treasurer of the N.E.C.M. Co. Cumberland, R.I., November 12, 1838."--P. iv.

"Errata."--T.p., verso.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 69865.

OCLC:

10