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Page 12
Assuming that the prosperity of a people increases in proportion to the amount of
the money circulating among them , he ... to carry the state onward in those
necessary improvements which the increase of its population and of its wants
would ...
Assuming that the prosperity of a people increases in proportion to the amount of
the money circulating among them , he ... to carry the state onward in those
necessary improvements which the increase of its population and of its wants
would ...
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200,000 actions , or shares , rated at 500 livres each , were at once issued , and
their value immediately increased in the most exorbitant degree . They were
looked upon as the titles of unlimited wealth , and their price consequently was
only ...
200,000 actions , or shares , rated at 500 livres each , were at once issued , and
their value immediately increased in the most exorbitant degree . They were
looked upon as the titles of unlimited wealth , and their price consequently was
only ...
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It became the prevailing belief in France , till the fatal edict of 21st of May had
suddenly prostrated the company , that the power of its founder was unlimited ,
and the sycophancy of the speculators towards him increased in proportion with
the ...
It became the prevailing belief in France , till the fatal edict of 21st of May had
suddenly prostrated the company , that the power of its founder was unlimited ,
and the sycophancy of the speculators towards him increased in proportion with
the ...
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Other circumstances soon occurred to increase the profits of our national
commerce , growing out of the wars in Europe , immediately succeeding our own
revolution . The French gov . ernment , inflamed by the military genius of
Napoleon ...
Other circumstances soon occurred to increase the profits of our national
commerce , growing out of the wars in Europe , immediately succeeding our own
revolution . The French gov . ernment , inflamed by the military genius of
Napoleon ...
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Aided by such a law , together with the increase of the number of seamen of the
country , and the extending population and enterprise of the nation , our
commerce has advanced to its present state.t On the termination of the war of
1812 , new ...
Aided by such a law , together with the increase of the number of seamen of the
country , and the extending population and enterprise of the nation , our
commerce has advanced to its present state.t On the termination of the war of
1812 , new ...
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Page 451 - A DICTIONARY, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.
Page 179 - And where, on the death of any person holding real estate within the territories of the one party, such real estate would, by the laws of the land, descend on a citizen or subject of the other, were he not disqualified by alienage, such citizen or subject shall be allowed a reasonable time to sell the same, and to withdraw the proceeds without molestation and exempt from all duties of detraction, on the part of the Government of the respective States.
Page 179 - But if not sent back within three months from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall not be again arrested for the same cause.
Page 179 - Vice-Consuls, or Commercial Agents, and may be confined in the public prisons, at the request and cost of those who shall claim them, in order to be sent to the vessels to which they belonged, or to others of the same country.
Page 275 - If either party shall hereafter grant to any other nation any particular favor in navigation or commerce, it shall immediately become common to the other party, freely, where it is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation when the grant is conditional.
Page 253 - An unconditional promise in writing to accept a bill before it is drawn is deemed an actual acceptance in favor of every person who, upon the faith thereof, receives the bill for value.
Page 273 - They shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside in all parts whatsoever of said territories, in order to attend to their affairs, and they shall enjoy, to that effect, the same security and protection as natives of the country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting to the laws and ordinances there prevailing, and particularly to the regulations in force concerning commerce.
Page 253 - Where an acceptance is written on a paper other than the bill itself, it does not bind the acceptor except in favor of a person to whom it is shown and who, on the faith thereof, receives the bill for value.
Page 273 - States than are or shall be payable on the like articles, being the growth produce or manufacture of any other foreign country...
Page 364 - Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into it.
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| Title | The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 5 Library of American civilization |
| Contributors | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William B. Dana, Isaac Smith Homans |
| Publisher | F. Hunt, 1841 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2007 |
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