Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 5F. Hunt, 1841 - Commerce |
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... say , can have no equals in the history of financial legis- lation for their crudeness or their pernicious tendency . It was proposed by Mr. Law , that by an edict which it should be made death to transgress , the standard of gold and ...
... say , can have no equals in the history of financial legis- lation for their crudeness or their pernicious tendency . It was proposed by Mr. Law , that by an edict which it should be made death to transgress , the standard of gold and ...
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... says carelessly , that the poor were found starved and frozen in troops , in the dreadful winter that ensued ; but she relates it as a matter of speculative curiosity , in the same way that almanac writers in our own day relate the ...
... says carelessly , that the poor were found starved and frozen in troops , in the dreadful winter that ensued ; but she relates it as a matter of speculative curiosity , in the same way that almanac writers in our own day relate the ...
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... say , the solvent banks in existence may be incorpo- * The precious metals being universally adopted as the measure of value , and there being no restriction to their circulation , every commercial nation will , in the course of trade ...
... say , the solvent banks in existence may be incorpo- * The precious metals being universally adopted as the measure of value , and there being no restriction to their circulation , every commercial nation will , in the course of trade ...
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... say too little , we would not have it say too much . The public use the bank notes as the representative of specie , and have a right to say they shall be fully equal to specie in every respect . And as VOL . V.-NO. I. 5 it is not ...
... say too little , we would not have it say too much . The public use the bank notes as the representative of specie , and have a right to say they shall be fully equal to specie in every respect . And as VOL . V.-NO. I. 5 it is not ...
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... say they are useless . They are a positive injury to the whole community . They restrict the natural flow of the currency , and promote unsteadiness in trade . The sooner we do away with them the better . Congress must enact a general ...
... say they are useless . They are a positive injury to the whole community . They restrict the natural flow of the currency , and promote unsteadiness in trade . The sooner we do away with them the better . Congress must enact a general ...
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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...
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