Buttonwood Agreement

The Buttonwood Agreement is the founding document of what is now the . Signed in 1792 under a on Wall Street, the simple contract bound 24 local merchants in their agreement to trade only with one another for a 0.25% commission on whatever they traded.Assassin's Creed III – Database: Buttonwood Agreement These merchants would keep meeting under the tree to trade securities after the agreement had been signed.Assassin's Creed III – Database: Wall Street
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*Assassin's Creed III 
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