Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 26Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana Freeman Hunt, 1852 - Commerce |
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... paid to any one For boats and vessels of five to twenty tons , em- vessel , for a single season . ployed four months , provided they had landed twelve quintals , ( after being dried ) for every ton , $ 1 00 per ton was to be paid . The ...
... paid to any one For boats and vessels of five to twenty tons , em- vessel , for a single season . ployed four months , provided they had landed twelve quintals , ( after being dried ) for every ton , $ 1 00 per ton was to be paid . The ...
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... paid . Twenty different loaves , all selling for the same price may yield different portions of rent ; but it is one only , that which yields no rent , which regulates the value of the rent , and which is to be considered as the ...
... paid . Twenty different loaves , all selling for the same price may yield different portions of rent ; but it is one only , that which yields no rent , which regulates the value of the rent , and which is to be considered as the ...
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... paid the least wages and the lowest rate of interest for the capital employed . Both look to the money received on the sale to reimburse the wages and interest ; but Lowell is able to do it for less money than Man- chester . What does ...
... paid the least wages and the lowest rate of interest for the capital employed . Both look to the money received on the sale to reimburse the wages and interest ; but Lowell is able to do it for less money than Man- chester . What does ...
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... paid in coin ; the precious metals uncoined are sufficient for the purpose . It is in this way that foreign debts are paid at present , when the legal currency is exclusively metallic . It is not the money value which the foreign ...
... paid in coin ; the precious metals uncoined are sufficient for the purpose . It is in this way that foreign debts are paid at present , when the legal currency is exclusively metallic . It is not the money value which the foreign ...
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... paid on Russian velvets and half velvets exported to China , and six silver roubles on nankins and other cotton goods . The premiums allowed for these exports at the Kiakhta custom - house was 92,775 silver roubles in 1847 , and 73,643 ...
... paid on Russian velvets and half velvets exported to China , and six silver roubles on nankins and other cotton goods . The premiums allowed for these exports at the Kiakhta custom - house was 92,775 silver roubles in 1847 , and 73,643 ...
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Page 763 - ... shall deem proper, under the penalty of forfeiting the shares of stock subscribed for, and all previous payments made thereon, if payment shall not be made by the stockholders...
Page 449 - As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed.
Page 28 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St.
Page 26 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 135 - Keep good company, or none. Never be idle; if your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face.
Page 328 - Courts of Common Pleas, Courts of Probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the Supreme Court, as the General Assembly may, from time to time, establish.
Page 42 - A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition and of ending his days, perhaps, in ease and plenty animates him to exert that strength to the utmost. Where wages are high, accordingly, we shall always find the workmen more active, diligent, and expeditious than where they are low ; in England, for example, than in Scotland ; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places.
Page 100 - Society for the Relief of Distressed and Decayed Pilots, their Widows and Children, has any legitimate tendency to impress on it the character of a revenue law.
Page 763 - ... stock shall consist, the number of directors, and their names, who shall manage the concerns of said company for the first year, and the name of the town and county in which the operations of the said company are to be carried on.
Page 376 - ... proper and necessary for diseases and accidents incident to sea voyages, and for the...