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[Congressional resolution requiring that taxes be paid in specie].

Printed resolution of the Continental Congress that requires the states, Rhode Island and New Jersey in particular, to make payments on requisitions in specie and not in the paper currency issued by the state. Signed as Secretary of the Continental...

GLC06047

New-York weekly journal. [Vol. 933, no. 98 (September 22, 1735)]

Bitterly denounces the government of William Cosby, although the writer never uses the Governor's name in the essay. Particularly focuses on the corruption of the counselors and ministers who surround the governor and prevent the voice of the...

GLC06108.05

British "Conder" halfpenny token expressing anger against Thomas Paine

Recto: "End of Pain" [sic] with depiction of a figure hanging from a scaffold. Verso: "May the knave of Jacobin clubs never get a trick."

GLC06303

[Memorial to Rhode Island Assembly attacking the Banks]

Appeal to Rhode Island Assembly, complaining of the banks' refusal to pay its debts, or pay for its currency. Calls to "abolish the whole system of banks at once." Signed in type by Brown, White, "and 4 others."

GLC06305

An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow specie to be applied to the redemption and reduction of the currency.

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GLC06745.009

(Secret.) (Senate bill no. 11.) . . . A bill to be entitled "An act to provide for the further issue of treasury notes, and for other purposes."

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GLC06745.012

. Report of the Committee on Finance on the bill (H. R., 92) to tax, fund, and limit the currency.

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GLC06745.024

. (House bill, no. 5.) . . . A bill To be entitled An act making Confederate notes a legal tender and to prevent and punish extortion.

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GLC06745.028

Mr. Foster's amendment to [the] bill to fund the currency.

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GLC06745.042

(House bill) . . . A bill to provide for the reduction of the currency.

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GLC06745.072

House of Representatives -- Secret session.) . . . A bill to be entitled "An act to tax, fund, and limit the currency."

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GLC06745.073

. (House of Representatives-Secret session.) . . . A bill to regulate the currency.

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GLC06745.083

House of Representatives. Substitute For the Bill (H. R. 229) to provide for more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency.

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GLC06745.119

House of Representatives. Substitute For the Bill (H. R. 229) to provide for more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency.

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GLC06745.120

House of Representatives. A Bill To be entitled An Act more effectually to provide for the reduction and redemption of this currency.

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GLC06745.126

House of Representatives, No. 307. A Bill To be entitled An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow specie, to be applied to the redemption and reduction of the currency.

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GLC06745.132

Under the recent act of Congress to reduce the currency, it is provided that….

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GLC06745.236

No. 25. Regulations established for the disposal at private sale of the six per cent. non-taxable Bonds of the Confederate States, authorized by the 6th section of the act of February 17,1864.

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GLC06745.238

The following regulations are established in relation to the receipt of Four per cent. Bonds and Certificates offered in payment for Taxes….

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GLC06745.239

Continental Congress. Account ledger detailing funds paid and received

Continental Congress in Boston. Entries include the following: "Cash to the Hon. Continental Congress-received from the Hon. John Hancock Esq.-President by the hands of Mr. George Spriggs-two boxes containing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars...

GLC06816

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1116 (May 3, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses the currency change from pounds to dollars. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents...

GLC06670.140

to Gov. of Virginia re: transmitting acts of Congress

Acts involve land grants, protection of frontiers, militias, debt relief, duties on spirits, national defense, altering Treasury and War Departments, copper coinage, governing territories, etc.

GLC06712

to his parents

Writes that soldiers are living in the state house in Tennessee, which is a "splendid piece of workmanship." However, the soldiers are not respectful of the building and keep it dirty at all times. Writes that the men are able to buy anything they...

GLC06728.032

to his parents

Writes that he has been ill with mumps but has almost fully recovered. Reports that the railroad from Knoxville to Chattanooga is complete. Also reports that Major General Howard is commanding the 4th corps. instead of [General Robert Granger]. In...

GLC06728.067

to his sister Ettie Weeks

Writes that they have been under musketry attack for eight days, but their works have been a safe place. Hopes that more one-year men will be drafted into the war. Asks his father about the late quotations of gold and how it will affect their...

GLC06728.072