The Committee appointed by the inhabitants of the city of New-York, on Wednesday the 29th of December last
Subtitle: to consider of the expediency of entering into measures to encourage industry and frugality, and employ the poor, do report ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 11008
Publisher: Printed by Hugh Gaine
Published: 1768
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Poor; Linen; Commerce; Politics and government; Manufactures; Non-importation agreements, 1768-1769
Notes: Calling for restrictions on the importation of British manufactures that may be supplied by the labor and industry of the inhabitants. Especially encouraging employment of the poor in the manufacture of linen. Followed by: Form of the subscription-roll. Dated: 1768.

Title from first lines of text.

American Antiquarian Society copy, mutilated, was found bound after the January 25, 1768, issue of Hugh Gaine's New York Mercury.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]1 recto, [A]2 verso blank).

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