The following is a copy of a bill, which was introduced and read in the honorable General Assembly of this state, at their sessions last week at Newport---the consideration of which is postponed to the next session. September 21, 1789.
Subtitle: An act for suspending the operation of two paragraphs of the act ... passed ... May, 1786, emitting bills of credit on loan to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds ..
Contributors: Foster, Theodore, 1752-1828.; Rhode Island.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22110.
Publisher: Printed by Bennett Wheeler.
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Debtor and creditor -- Rhode Island.; Money -- Rhode Island.
Other titles: Act for suspending the operation of two paragraphs of the act ... emitting bills of credit ..
Notes: Also authorizing the substitution of real and personal property, at appraised values, for specie, in the payment of debts.

American Antiquarian Society copy, slightly mutilated, is inscribed on verso: Substitution bill drafted by Theo Foster and read by him in the General Assembly ..

Text in three columns; printed area measures 39.8 x 21.7 cm.

Evans 22110.

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 1156.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22110)