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21 August 1787
Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822
The Legislature shall fulfill the foreign engagements...
Quarter sheet, docketed on verso: "The Creditors." The word "foreign" inserted above in pencil. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.14
25 August 1787
The regulation of Commerce or Revenue...
Half sheet regarding the federal government's regulation of ports. Blank on verso. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.15
But no regulation of Commerce or Revenue...
Quarter sheet related to #819.15. Denies the federal government the right to give favor to the ports of one state over another. Note that this contradicts #819.15. Date from Hutson.
GLC00819.16
31 August 1787
Mason, George, 1725-1792
[Various proposals:] The Council of State...
Large folio sheet. Unidentified handwriting. Also re: import duties, revenues, limiting terms and appointments of elected officials including the President, limits on the executive pardon authority and a rejected clause concerning revenues.
GLC00819.19
31 August - 04 September 1787
Money Bills [and] Trade [with Pinckney anecdote]
Mentions the rejection of a clause rejecting the origination of money bills; also, additions concerning debts for the common defense, rejecting taxes of limited duration, trade, age and birth requirements for President. With a Charles Pinckney story...
GLC00819.21
August 1787
In all Cases of Capture from an Enemy...
Folded small folio. Fragments concerning trade and limitations on the judiciary's office, with an unfinished resolve. (J. Whatman countermark in paper)
GLC00819.25
13 January 1794
Madison, James, 1751-1836
to Tench Coxe
Thanks Coxe, a statesman and economist, for a paper he sent him concerning various trade products. Asks a series of questions about exports and re-exports, European markets, and market discrimination against America. Makes reference to an export...
GLC02387
circa 1809
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Dignified retirement: parody on the house that Jack built, -- fitted to the times
A parody of the nursery rhyme styled upon eighteenth century children's chapbooks making fun of Jefferson's retirement at a time of national crisis. The figures are rough allegories of Jefferson (alternately a king then a priest, retiring to a...
GLC02209
30 March 1798
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833
[Public notice of amendment to an act for duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper]
Signed by Wolcott as Secretary of Treasury. Details amendments made to an act passed 6 July 1797 concerning duties on paper.
GLC02153
27 February 1783
McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
to Henry Knox
Written by General McDougall under the alias "Brutus" to Major General Knox, lamenting Congress's refusal to pay the army and fund pensions for the officers. Says the motion was declined by Congress "for fear the States would consider it a design in...
GLC02437.01959
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