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Merchants Protective Union i
MERCANTILE REFERENCE REGISTERS

TVHIIE MERCHANTS PROTECTIVE UN-i
Il ION, organized to promote and protects
trade, by enabling it's subscribers to attain far
cility and safety in tho granting of credits, an&
tho recovery Of claims Mt al points, have tor
announce that thoy will, in eptombcr, 1868, !
publish in ono large quarto volume:
TIE MERclANTs' PROTECTIVE UNION MER-s
CANTILER REFERENCE REGISTER, containingamong q
other things, tho Names, Nature of Business.y,
Amount Of Capital, Financial Standing, and
and Rating as to Credit, of over 100000 of the
principal merchants, traders, bankers, many \
i%acturers, and public companies, in moro thin I
$4,000 of tho cities, towns, villages, and settle
ments throughout the United, totes, their ter-
ritories, and tho British Provinces of Northlh
America and embracing tho most importantl
information attainablo and necessary TO enableS
tho merchant to ascertain ut a glance the caE N
tai, character, and degree of credit CT such ~
his customers rs are deemed worthy Of my gra&z
dation of credit, comprising, also, q NewspapeT3
Directory, containing tho tito. character, price,
and place Of publication, with full particulars$
relative to each journal, being a complete guidel
to tho press Of every counly in the Unitcdi
States.
The reports and information will be confined1
to those deemed worthy OF some line of credit /;
! and rs the samc vii! be hssed, SO far as pfTctisi
cable, upon the written statements of the parties
and reliable legal correspondents, whose char
actcr will prove a guarantee of tho correotnessS
Of tho information furnished by them, it isl
believed that the reports will prove more truth.
full and complete, and, therefore, hyperion to-,
and of much creator yaluo, than any previously
issued.
BY aid Of the Mercantile Reference Regis.
ter" business men will be enabled to ascertain,
at Il 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.
On or about tho first of each month, subscri-s.
bcrs will also receive the "NIontlly Chronicle q
containing, among other things. q record off
such Important changes in the name and oondjr
ton Of firms, throughout the country, as ma. !
occur subsequent to the publication of eack
halfycarly volume Of the +" Mercantile Refer
cncc Register"
De; resc e nTln Merchants Union Mercantile
Rcfcgen,"" IT, 2 .43eas" fly. dollars. $500 for
! whi.h ice S viii" pu forward4 ohSy address Ia
the United States, transpolati4 paid. N
| Holders Of iivo $40 sh3cs If the Capital&b
Stock, in addition to particikti,k in tho profits, 4 4
will receive one copy of tho M{cantilo Refert
sncc Register" free Of cha,tc holders of lten
llaros will be entitled To ito bpies and no &
boro ,han ten shares Of Tic Cadtal took Mill Ss
p allotted to any one applic,nt.(
All romittanccs, orders, OF c4nmunicatidhs n
Native to the book should be adGessed to the
MERCHANTS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. h&4
!ic American Exchange Bank 1uildingjN No.,
l2S Broadway, (I}ox $780, New York.
August %, 1868 4S v NM