Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register, Volume 2Samuel Hazard W. F. Geddes., 1840 - Banks and banking |
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... equal to Rushton & Aspinwall's best . It is stated to be very salubrious . The fountain has seve- ral openings ; one of which is about fifteen feet in diameter , with no discovered bottom . - New York Signal . Fruit Trees in Bloom ...
... equal to Rushton & Aspinwall's best . It is stated to be very salubrious . The fountain has seve- ral openings ; one of which is about fifteen feet in diameter , with no discovered bottom . - New York Signal . Fruit Trees in Bloom ...
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... equals near one hundred and thirty - seven mil- lions before 1839. The debt thus computed to have been created abroad , by ... equal the sum of Viz : Civil , foreign intercourse , and miscellaneous , $ 4,981,344 19 Military services ...
... equals near one hundred and thirty - seven mil- lions before 1839. The debt thus computed to have been created abroad , by ... equal the sum of Viz : Civil , foreign intercourse , and miscellaneous , $ 4,981,344 19 Military services ...
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... equal to twelve or thirteen millions of dollars . This is a new and important element , besides overbanking and overtrading , to disturb the industry , the commerce and finances of the Union . Its rapid growth has been accelerated by ...
... equal to twelve or thirteen millions of dollars . This is a new and important element , besides overbanking and overtrading , to disturb the industry , the commerce and finances of the Union . Its rapid growth has been accelerated by ...
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... equal to all the other ordinary expenditures , and more than the whole of every kind except the public debt , each year , from 1789 to 1797 . The precise periods when the greatest increases happened , and the ratio of them , have not ...
... equal to all the other ordinary expenditures , and more than the whole of every kind except the public debt , each year , from 1789 to 1797 . The precise periods when the greatest increases happened , and the ratio of them , have not ...
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... equal caution may well be exercised in deciding on their necessity , yet , when once that is admitted , less objection exists to temporary measures for relief , like Treasury notes or short loans , pro- vided a permanent increase of ...
... equal caution may well be exercised in deciding on their necessity , yet , when once that is admitted , less objection exists to temporary measures for relief , like Treasury notes or short loans , pro- vided a permanent increase of ...
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Page 324 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Page 324 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 358 - ... and if any shall be found, to seize and secure the same for trial. And all such goods, wares and merchandise on which the duties shall not have been paid, or secured to be paid, shall be forfeited.
Page 64 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 6 - York banks in 1837, which was followed in quick succession throughout the Union, was produced by an application of that power, and it is now alleged, in extenuation of the present condition of so large a portion of our banks, that their embarrassments have arisen from the same cause. From this influence they...
Page 325 - ... widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years; and in case of...
Page 281 - Commissioners refusing or declining or wilfully omitting to act as such, they shall make jointly or separately a report or reports, as well to the Government of His Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States, stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they or either of them have so refused, declined or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty, and the Government of the United States...
Page 362 - ... under pretence of weighing it, took out; the stones, and calling to the master to let him know it came to three halfpence, the master offered the boy the money, who refused to take it, and insisted to have the thing again; whereupon the apprentice delivered him...
Page 8 - Thus accomplishing their legitimate ends, they have gained the surest guarantee for their protection and encouragement in the good will of the community. Among a people so just as ours the same results could not fail to attend a similar course. The direct supervision of the banks belongs, from the nature of our Government, to the States who authorize them.
Page 8 - ' coin money and regulate the value of foreign coins," and when they forbade the States "to coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, " or " pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.