Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-02-26
The Merchants Protective Union
MERCANTILE RBlERBbCB. REGISTER.

rHHE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION, ergan-
Il lied to promote and protect trade by enabl-
ing its subscribers to attain facility and safety
in the granting of credits, and the recovery Of
claims at all points, have to announce that
they will in September, 1868, publish in one
large quarto volume:
The MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UNION MERcAN-
TILE REFERENCE REGISTER, containing among
other things, the Names, Nature Of Business,
Amount Of Capital, Financial Standing and
Rating as to Credit, Of over 100000 of the
principal merchants, traders, bankers, manu-
factnrers, and public companies, in, more. than
80, 900 of the cities, towns, villages, and set
Elements throughout the United States, their
territories, and the British Provinces of North
America and embracing the most important
information attainable and necessary to enable
the merchant to ascertain at a glance the Cap
ital, Character and Degree of Credit of such of
his customers as are deemed worthy of any
graduation of credit, comprising, also, NeWs-
paper Directory, containing the title, charac-
ter, price, and place of publication, with full
particulars relative to each journal, being a
complete guide to the press Of every county in
| the United States. sfai@ r =
The reports and information will be confined
to those deemed worthy of some line of credit;
and as the same will be based, So far as prac-
ticable, upon the written stateHdents of the
parties themselves, revised aud corrected by
well known and reliable legal correspondents,
whose Character will prore a guarantee of the
correctness of the inforulation furnished by
them, tits believed that the reports. will prove
more Enthfu1 and complete, and therefore,
superior to, and Of much greater value, than
previously issued. Ia = !2zEI.-
/ :. BY aid of, the MERcAYTH.E REFERENCE. REG
flsrER,l business men}wiu be ab1ed to ASCERTAIN,
at glance, the capital and graduation of credit,
as compared with financial worth of nearly
every merchant manufacturer, trader and
banker, within the above named territorial
limits.
q On or about the first of each month, sub
scribers will also receive the Monthly, Chxoni-
cls,. containing, ampng other things, a record
of such important change in the nape and con-
dition of firms, sthrough0utthe country as may
occur subsequent to the publication of each
half-yearly volume of the MERCANTILE REFER
ENCE REGISTER = YE.z 3fsff fissa..3i ~
Price of the Merchants Union Mercantile
Reference Register, Fifty Dollars, ($5O) for
which 1t will be forwarded to any address in
the United States,~ transportation paid. h.
Holders of FIVE $40 shares of the Capital
Stock, in. addition to participating in the pro-
FITS, will receive one copy Of the MEkcXNT1LE
REFERENcE. REGISTER free Of charge; holders Of
ten Shares will be entitled to TWO copies
and nei more than ten shares ef the Capital
Stock will be allotted to any one, applicant.
All remittances, orders or communica ions,
relative to the book should be addressed to]
the, Merchants Protective Union, in the Amer
lean Exchange Bank Building, No. 1913 Broad
way, fbox 2566y New York. iia'L - ssz
y 40. $50