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Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795 [Secret draft budget for the United States]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04658 Author/Creator: Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Printed document Date: 19 September 1778 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 52.7 cm, Width: 41.7 cm Order a Copy

Partial printed budget that the Continental Congress ordered the Committee on Finance to draft. Recommends a loan of 20 million dollars sterling from Europe and outlines the financial relationship with the states. Also recommends poll taxes and duties. With manuscript notes of Josiah Bartlett on the front and docket of "M. Bartlett" on verso.

Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

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