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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... . The whole expense of the war was more than one hundred and thirty - five millions of dollars . * About one The whole expense of the revolutionary war cannot be ascertained , half of this expense was paid by taxes , levied 4.
... . The whole expense of the war was more than one hundred and thirty - five millions of dollars . * About one The whole expense of the revolutionary war cannot be ascertained , half of this expense was paid by taxes , levied 4.
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... paid by taxes , levied and collected during the war , and the residue remained a debt due from the United States , or from the individual states , on the return of peace . In April , 1783 , with certainty . The following are estimates ...
... paid by taxes , levied and collected during the war , and the residue remained a debt due from the United States , or from the individual states , on the return of peace . In April , 1783 , with certainty . The following are estimates ...
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... per each barrel of one hundred and ninety - six pounds . In consequence of these acts , the bounty paid , on the importation of grain , in 1796 , * A quarter is eight Winchester bushels . amounted to £ 599,834 sterling ; and in 1801 , 114.
... per each barrel of one hundred and ninety - six pounds . In consequence of these acts , the bounty paid , on the importation of grain , in 1796 , * A quarter is eight Winchester bushels . amounted to £ 599,834 sterling ; and in 1801 , 114.
Page 166
... paid or secured to be paid upon them , on their importa- tion . The manufactures of Europe , and particularly of Great - Bri- tain , as well as the manufactures and produce of the East - Indies and China , have also been imported , and ...
... paid or secured to be paid upon them , on their importa- tion . The manufactures of Europe , and particularly of Great - Bri- tain , as well as the manufactures and produce of the East - Indies and China , have also been imported , and ...
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... paid by consumers in the United States , during the years 1805 , 1806 , and 1807 , amounted to the following sums , viz.— In 1805 1806 1807 Making , $ 1,531,618 1,297,535 1,393,877 $ 4,223,030 Add to this the amount of the three and a ...
... paid by consumers in the United States , during the years 1805 , 1806 , and 1807 , amounted to the following sums , viz.— In 1805 1806 1807 Making , $ 1,531,618 1,297,535 1,393,877 $ 4,223,030 Add to this the amount of the three and a ...
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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.