Memorial from the auctioneers, of the city of New-York [microform]
New York (City).Auctioneers.
United States.Congress(16th, 2nd session :1820-1821)
[New York? : s.n.,
1821?]
Cataloged from cover.
According to the Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... Sixteenth Congress, 2nd session, 1820-1821, Washington, Gales and Seaton, 1855, p. 1523, the memorial was communicated to the Senate on Jan. 4, 1821, in opposition to Congress imposing a duty on sales at auction.  Cf. Ray Bert Westerfield's Early history of American auctions ... in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 23, May 1920, p. 174.
Differs in content from another pamphlet with the same title, 12 pages, also addressed to Congress by the auctioneers in 1824.
Sabin 54106
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