(Circular.) Philadelphia, February 8, 1781.
Subtitle: Sir, Your excellency will receive enclosed two important resolves of Congress, of the 3d and 7th instant, recommending it to the several states ... that they vest a power in Congress, to levy, for the use of the United States, a duty of five per cent ... upon all goods, wares and merchandize, of foreign growth and manufacture ... to be appropriated to the discharge ... of the debts ... of the United States, for supporting the present war ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44065.
Publisher: Printed by John Carter.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Debts, Public -- United States.; Finance -- United States.; Tariff -- United States.; Broadsides.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Confiscations and contributions.; United States -- Commerce.
Notes: Signed: Samuel Huntington, president.

At end: State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. The preceding contains true copies ... Witness, Henry Ward, sec'ry.

Printed in two columns.

Bristol B5380.

Shipton & Mooney 44065.

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 897.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44065).