An Historical Account of Massachusetts CurrencyPerkins & Marvin, 1839 - 259 עמודים |
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עמוד 1647 - Rowley and his servant. The master, being forced to sell a pair of his oxen to pay his servant his wages, told his servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered, he would serve him for more of his cattle. "But how shall I do," saith the master, "when all my cattle are gone?" The servant replied, "You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.
עמוד 212 - As a very important source of strength and security cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of...
עמוד 99 - Wherefore I have thought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby Promising...
עמוד 58 - America, and the inconveniences thereof, by the indirect practice of drawing the money — from one plantation to another, to the great prejudice of the trade of our subjects; And being sensible that the same cannot be otherwise remedied, than by reducing of all foreign coins to the same current rate, within all our dominions in America...
עמוד 155 - God and nature, divest them of those rights. " 3. Resolved, That no man can justly take the property of another without his consent; and that upon this original principle, the right of representation in the same body which exercises the power of making laws for levying taxes, which is one of the main pillars of the British Constitution, is evidently founded.
עמוד 1628 - Their owne is of two sorts; one white, which they make of the stem or stocke of the Periwincle, which they call, Meteauhock, when all the shell is broken off...
עמוד 166 - That the proportion or quota of each respective colony be determined according to the number of inhabitants, of all ages, including negroes and mulattoes in each colony.
עמוד 152 - An Act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
עמוד 57 - Bills shall be in manner and form following, viz : (This indented Bill of shillings, due from the colony of New Jersey to the possessor thereof, shall be in value equal to money, and shall be accordingly accepted by the Treasurer of this Colony, for the time being, in all public payments, and for any fund at any time in the Treasury.
עמוד 54 - They give the title of merchant to every trader; who rate their goods according to the time and specie they pay in, viz., "Pay," "Money," "Pay as money,