A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: and an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied with Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the Work |
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... interests of the United States . The favourable reception of the first edition , and the liberality experienced from a generous public , as well as from numerous individuals , have induced the author , to present to the public a ...
... interests of the United States . The favourable reception of the first edition , and the liberality experienced from a generous public , as well as from numerous individuals , have induced the author , to present to the public a ...
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... debt of Great - Britain , and of capital and interest re- deemed from 1786 , to 1st February , 1813 , and the produce of the sinking fund at that time , 285 286 288 349 350 CHAPTER X. PAGE . · 386 TABLE NO . I. CONTENTS . xi.
... debt of Great - Britain , and of capital and interest re- deemed from 1786 , to 1st February , 1813 , and the produce of the sinking fund at that time , 285 286 288 349 350 CHAPTER X. PAGE . · 386 TABLE NO . I. CONTENTS . xi.
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... interest and prosperity of the parent country , without much regard to the interest and prosperity of the Colonies themselves . The trade and commerce of the Colonies was generally confined to the parent country . The right of trading ...
... interest and prosperity of the parent country , without much regard to the interest and prosperity of the Colonies themselves . The trade and commerce of the Colonies was generally confined to the parent country . The right of trading ...
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... interest of the parent country . In consequence of these com- plaints , the British house of Commons , in 1731 , directed the Board of trade and Plantations , to make a report " with respect to laws made , manufactures set up , or trade ...
... interest of the parent country . In consequence of these com- plaints , the British house of Commons , in 1731 , directed the Board of trade and Plantations , to make a report " with respect to laws made , manufactures set up , or trade ...
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... interests . And , therefore , we humbly beg leave to repeat and submit to the wis- dom of this honourable house , the substance of what we formerly pro- posed in our report , on the silk , linen , and woolen manufactures herein before ...
... interests . And , therefore , we humbly beg leave to repeat and submit to the wis- dom of this honourable house , the substance of what we formerly pro- posed in our report , on the silk , linen , and woolen manufactures herein before ...
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ad valorem American vessels annual Average price barrels bbls Bremen British American Colonies British West-Indies bushels cocoa coffee commerce Commissioners Congress Connecticut cotton countries custom-house books Denmark and Norway Dolls domestic produce Drawbacks Dutch West-Indies duties ad valorem East-Indies Europe exports and imports fish fishery flour follows foreign produce France French West-Indies gallons Georgia Great-Britain Hamburg hemp Holland hundred imported from Great-Britain increase indigo IV.-CONTINUED lands loan Madeira manufactures Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Territory millions of dollars molasses New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York paying duties payment Pennsylvania pimento Plantations ports Portugal pounds principal public debt quantity revenue Rhode-Island rice Russia salt shipped sinking fund six per cent South-Carolina Spain Spanish West-Indies Species of Merchandize spermaceti spirits sugar Sweden Swedish West-Indies TABLE Territory thousand tobacco tonnage tons Total trade Treasury turpentine United value of imports Value-dolls West-India Islands whale whale oil wheat Whither exported
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Page 38 - Island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 38 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 38 - Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 44 - ... they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland...
Page 38 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 32 - States ; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony, and to report to the several States such an act relative to this great object, as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States, in Congress assembled, effectually to provide for the same...
Page 32 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 11 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...
Page 44 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 44 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.