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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
June 24, 1863
Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888
to George Schley
Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, discusses an attempt to raise funds for the Confederacy (refer to GLC00832.01) with Schley. States that bonds in the form that Schley proposed cannot be issued, due to a recent act passed by the...
GLC00832.02
1863
Items related to the Confederate Congress' attempts to raise funds. [Decimalized .01-.03]
GLC00832
May 20, 1863
to George A. Trenholm
Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, requests the financial advice of Trenholm, Confederate agent in Europe. Reports a measure adopted by the Confederate Congress for "raising 250 millions by the issue of 20 year bonds, with Coupons...
GLC00832.01
30 April 1863
Confederate States of America. Congress
An Act supplementary to "An Act to provide for the funding and further issue of Treasury notes."
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds "at a rate of six per centum per annum, payable at the pleasure of the owner in the currency in which interest is paid on the other bonds of the Confederate States, or in cotton of the quality...
GLC00832.03
26 November 1819
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843
to Henry Maynadier
Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American...
GLC02379
1875/06/15
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876
to Thomas F. Pinckney
Comments on the present difficulties faced by engineers, but sees better times ahead. Says that Texas has "a big and a bright future, far more promising than any other southern State." Claims the state now needs more laborers to reorganize the...
GLC02359
2 April 1868
Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889
to Henry Knox Craig
He is working for pay for retired soldiers. Comments on the Supreme Court decision in the McCardle case and President Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Expresses strong feelings about the Republican party and Reconstruction, criticizing the unfair...
GLC02382.040
6 January 1840
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
to Solomon Haven
Discusses political and social news. Mentions that the state legislature will meet tomorrow and that there is a movement toward legal reform, which he feels in necessary. Briefly comments on national and state debts. Written as member of Congress.
GLC02344
21 October 1870
Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879
to Aaron F. Perry
Congratulates Perry on winning his Congressional election and praises him as "honest, true, and capable." Declares, "I have always been for a free tariff, and I believe that that is all the country requires now, to fulfil its mission. My idea of...
GLC02310
24 April 1782
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
[Reciept for Benjamin Franklin]
Receiving twelve bills of exchange from Charles Pettit drawn by Francis Hopkinson on Benjamin Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiary to France. These total nine thousand eight hundred dollars, which the government had given him. Written at the Office...
GLC02324
20 December 1929
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
to Richard Edmonds
Acknowledges to Edmonds, the founding editor of the Manufactures Record, that their unemployment was high but contends "it is fantastic for the Englishman you mention to talk about five million." Also notes that he needs to hear from Edmonds...
GLC02346.01
1750-1820
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Henry Knox papers, including retained and received correspondence, &c. [Decimalized .00001 - .10737]
Letters and documents, written to or by Knox, who served as chief of Artillery during the Revolution, and then as Secretary of War under the Articles of Confederation and in President Washington's first administration. The collection includes Knox's...
GLC02437
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
23 January 1865
Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876
to Charles Clark
Trenholm, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, discusses the preparation and transmission of bonds from the Register. Informs Clark, Governor of Mississippi, that it will be impossible to furnish bonds smaller than $500. Written on Confederate...
GLC02408
6 April 1861
[General Bragg discusses military matters in the Pensacola area]
Bragg (Confederate) states "Our truce remains in force, 'They are not to reinforce, We are not to attack.' It is being carried out by both parties so far. All kinds of supplies ... were being furnished the enemy when I got here. I have stopped...
GLC02409
30 July 1864
Smith, Austin, fl. 1864
[Copy of report to William P. Fessenden about the first Federal income tax Florida]
Reports the results of his inquiry into the "practices & procedures & acts of the Tax Commissioners of the Insurrectionary Districts..." Informs that the Florida Direct Tax Commissioners were appointed in October 1862, and that since then, they have...
GLC02414.003
14 October 1942
to D.M Reynolds
Writes to Reynolds about "the Poso business," which has been managed by Hoover's son Allan, and the "prospect of getting back its money." Argues that they should get the bank to extend the mortgage and wait until next year and hope things develop...
GLC02428
7 August 1777
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795
[Receipt for meals and lodging]
Signed by Charles Pyncheon. Verifies receipt of 32 shillings from Bartlett as payment for his and Colonel Nathaniel Peabody's food and lodging for eight days at the Springfield, Massachusetts monetary convention held 30 July - 6 August 1777.
GLC02205
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
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