Sir, I submit the annexed preamble and resolution to your serious and sober consideration
Subtitle: I am thoroughly convinced that if any city bank were to receive the notes of any country bank, paying specie, and to demand specie for them, with the alternative to the latter, of paying interest on balances that might accrue, it would unhesitatingly adopt this alternative, and thus relieve our citizens from a disgraceful and odious tax ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 40403
Publisher: Published by Mathew Carey
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Banks and banking; Currency question
Notes: Signed and dated: Mathew Carey. Philadelphia, March 31, 1817.

Followed on p. [2] by: March 31, 1817. Whereas the notes of various incorporated banks in the interior of this state ... are at a depreciation, notwithstanding those banks have resumed the payment of specie ... Therefore resolved ... to remove from the state, the disgrace of the depreciation of the notes of its chartered banks--and to relieve the citizens from a hideous abuse, by which they have been too long plundered of a portion of their honest earnings.

Shaw & Shoemaker 40403

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