Whereas the rapid and alarming depreciation of the currency in the months of January, February, March, April, and May last, occasioned a town meeting to be held in the State-House yard in this city on the 25th day of the last mentioned month ...
Contributors: McClenachan, Blair.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16474.
Publisher: Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Price regulation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.; Broadsides.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Confiscations and contributions.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce.
Notes: Resolution calling upon retail tradesmen for "an attested account of the prices they severally sold for, or charged at, in the year 1774, with an account of their prices and charges for the same articles, &c. at this time ..."

Signed: Blair M'Clenaghan, chairman of the Committee for Enquiring into the State of Trade.

The Library Company of Philadelphia copy is dated by Du Simitiere: Philadelphia August 10th 1779.

Evans 16474.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3978.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16474).