Memorial of the Committee Appointed by the "Free Trade Convention," Held at Philadelphia, in September and October, 1831W. A. Mercein, printer, 1832 - 87 páginas |
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... hundred and twenty millions . Congress , without delay , raised the annual appropri- ation for the debt to ten millions of dollars , and provided a revenue sufficient , not only for the payment of that sum , and for discharg- ing the ...
... hundred and twenty millions . Congress , without delay , raised the annual appropri- ation for the debt to ten millions of dollars , and provided a revenue sufficient , not only for the payment of that sum , and for discharg- ing the ...
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... hundred thousand dollars . The average annual amount of all the other expenses of Government , deducting the repayment to the claimants of the sum paid by Great Britain , into the Treasury , for claims under the first article of the ...
... hundred thousand dollars . The average annual amount of all the other expenses of Government , deducting the repayment to the claimants of the sum paid by Great Britain , into the Treasury , for claims under the first article of the ...
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... hundred and seventy - five thousand dollars ; and that for internal improvements of every description , and in every quarter , to one million two hundred and seventy - five thousand dollars . It is obvious that the expense under the ...
... hundred and seventy - five thousand dollars ; and that for internal improvements of every description , and in every quarter , to one million two hundred and seventy - five thousand dollars . It is obvious that the expense under the ...
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... hundred and for thousand dollars a year . The actual annual consumpt those six years may therefore be estimated at about fifty million and a half . As there are goods not entitled to drav exported to an amount of eight or nine hundred ...
... hundred and for thousand dollars a year . The actual annual consumpt those six years may therefore be estimated at about fifty million and a half . As there are goods not entitled to drav exported to an amount of eight or nine hundred ...
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... hundred yards , there is an actual national loss of two hundred yards , equal to two hun- dred dollars , or to two hundred bushels of wheat ; since the same labor and capital , if applied to the production of wheat , would have produced ...
... hundred yards , there is an actual national loss of two hundred yards , equal to two hun- dred dollars , or to two hundred bushels of wheat ; since the same labor and capital , if applied to the production of wheat , would have produced ...
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actual ad valorem adopted afford ALBERT GALLATIN American annual average bank notes Bank of England bar iron bills of exchange branches capital cent chartered banks city banks commercial commodities Congress consists Constitution Convention country banks debt demand deposits depreciated depreciated currency difference discounts domestic manufacture effect equal evil exceed exclusively exports Farmers favorable foreign article France free banking gold and silver gold coins greater imported increase industry interest iron issue labor less loans millions of dollars necessary New-York nominal object operations paid paper currency paper money payable Pennsylvania pound sterling precious metals prime cost principal produce profit provisions purchase purpose quantity reduced rency respect restrictions resumption of specie revenue specie payments standard of value sterling substituted sufficient supply suspension of specie sustained tariff tariff of 1824 thousand dollars tion Treasury twenty United wanted whilst York
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Página 52 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin, and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing, and circulating notes according to the provisions of this title.
Página 70 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Página 3 - It is invested with the power to coin money, and to regulate the value thereof, and to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States.
Página 72 - No objection ought to arise to this construction from the supposition that it would imply a power to do whatever else should appear to Congress conducive to the general welfare.
Página 72 - These three qualifications excepted the power to raise money is plenary and indefinite, and the objects to which it may be appropriated are no less comprehensive than the payment of the Public debts, and the providing for the common defence and general Welfare. The terms "general Welfare...
Página 93 - No person, association of persons or corporation, except such as are expressly authorized by law, shall keep any office for the purpose of issuing any evidences of debt, to be loaned or put in circulation as money; nor shall they issue any bills or promissory notes or other evidences of debt as private bankers, for the purpose of loaning them or putting them in circulation as money, unless thereto specially authorized by law.
Página 53 - The said corporation shall not, directly or indirectly, deal or trade in buying or selling any goods, wares, merchandise, or...
Página 105 - ... everywhere, among the learned, the lawyers, the military, artists, merchants, mechanics, and men of all stations. - The reader may judge how well it is adapted to its object, from the circumstance, that though it now consists of twelve volumes, seven editions, comprising about ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES, have been printed in less than fifteen years. It has been translated into the Swedish, Danish and Dutch languages, and a French translation is now preparing in Paris.
Página 72 - And there seems to be no room for a doubt that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce, are within the sphere of the national councils, as far as regards an application of money. The only qualification of the generality of the phrase in question, which seems to be admissible, is this: That the object to which an appropriation of money is to be made be general, and not local; its operation extending in fact or by possibility throughout...
Página 90 - Secondly. It will also be expected, that it will powerfully assist in raising the necessary loans, not by taking up, on its own account, any sum beyond what may be entirely convenient and consistent with the safety and primary object of the institution, but by affording facilities to the money lenders. Those, who, in the first instance, subscribe to a public loan, do not intend to keep the whole, but expect to distribute it gradually with a reasonable profit. The greatest inducement, in order to...