The American museum, or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces [afterw.] The American museum, or, Universal magazine [ed. by M. Carey]., Volume 2Mathew Carey 1789 |
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... exported to them from England in 1750 , before the reftraint took place , were near five times as much as before they had paper money . Pennsylvania , before it made any paper - money , was totally fript of its gold and filver ; though ...
... exported to them from England in 1750 , before the reftraint took place , were near five times as much as before they had paper money . Pennsylvania , before it made any paper - money , was totally fript of its gold and filver ; though ...
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... exported ; every mer- chant who had occafion to remit it , would run to the bank with all its bills that came into his hands , and take out his part of its treafure for that purpofe , fo that in a fhort time it would be no more able to ...
... exported ; every mer- chant who had occafion to remit it , would run to the bank with all its bills that came into his hands , and take out his part of its treafure for that purpofe , fo that in a fhort time it would be no more able to ...
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... exported . When fpecie is fcarce , produce will fall , and the re- mittances for our imports , will be in bills of exchange . Paper - money forms the wings of fpecie . It haftens its flight from our country . Nor is this all - it ...
... exported . When fpecie is fcarce , produce will fall , and the re- mittances for our imports , will be in bills of exchange . Paper - money forms the wings of fpecie . It haftens its flight from our country . Nor is this all - it ...
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... exported from Currituck , Edenton , Bath , Newbern , and Wilmington , in the last year , feems to be valued too high , when ftated at 506,700 dollars . The to- bacco , rolled into Virginia , and pro- duce conveyed to South Carolina ...
... exported from Currituck , Edenton , Bath , Newbern , and Wilmington , in the last year , feems to be valued too high , when ftated at 506,700 dollars . The to- bacco , rolled into Virginia , and pro- duce conveyed to South Carolina ...
Page 118
... exported ; but there was ftill a rem- nant of hard money in many of the ftates the people retained it for the neceifary purposes of exchange - and merchants could not get it out of their hands . In order to banish this remnant of hard ...
... exported ; but there was ftill a rem- nant of hard money in many of the ftates the people retained it for the neceifary purposes of exchange - and merchants could not get it out of their hands . In order to banish this remnant of hard ...
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