Transactions of the Albany Institute, Band 5Webster and Skinners, 1867 |
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Seite 43 - York, and the same was probably true in respect to other colonies ¡accordingly in 1744 the complaint was renewed that large emissions of bills of credit had been made, notwithstanding the "instructions," and that more were intended. Whereupon leave was granted to bring in a bill to prevent the issuing of paper bills of credit in the British colonies and plantations in America, to be legal tenders in payments of money, which bill having had its first reading was indefinitely postponed. No public...
Seite 52 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Seite 75 - THIS bill entitles the bearer to receive Spanish Milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to the resolutions of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May, AD 1775.
Seite 62 - Number and division of the bills. 1,391 bills, each of 10 oz. of plate. 1,000 do. 7 " 10 pwt. do. 1,000 do. 5 " do. 1,000 do. 2 " 10 « do. 1,000 do. 2 " do. 1,000 do. 1 " 10 " do. 1,000 do. 1 " 5 " do. 2,200 do. 1 " do. 3,000 do. 15 « do. 4,000 do. 10 " do. 5,630 do. 5 " do. Currency limited to 1740. Commissioners for canceling, the signers. Amount canceled, ,£16,351. 1720. — November 19. Amount, 5000 ounces of plate or £2,000. Form: This indented Bill of. Pennyweight Grains of Plate, due from...
Seite 78 - The possessor of this bill shall be paid Spanish milled dollars by the thirty-first day of December, 1786, with interest in like money at the rate of five per cent per annum, by the state of according to an act of the legislature of the said state of the day of 1780.
Seite 57 - This indented bill of ten shillings, due from the Massachusetts Colony to the Possessor, shall be in value equal to money, and shall be accordingly accepted by the Treasurer, and Receivers subordinate to him in all publick payments, and for any stock at any time in the Treasury. Boston in New England December the loth, 1690. By order of the General Court.
Seite 243 - ... pudding, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of good claret, sherry, or Madeira — champagne, port, and beer forbidden.
Seite 25 - It is ordered that corne shall passe for payment of all debts at the usual rate it is solde for, except money or beaver be expressly named.
Seite 85 - An act further to continue the duty of excise, and the currency of bills of credit emitted thereon, for the purposes in the former act, and herein mentioned.
Seite 89 - ACT for emitting the Sum of One Hundred "and twenty thousand pounds in Bills of Credit, to "be put out on loan...