By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas a scheme for emitting bills or notes by John Colman, Esq; and others, was laid before the Great and General Court ... I have thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, hereby giving notice and warning ... and cautioning ... against receiving or passing the said notes ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the seventeenth day of July 1740. ..
Contributors: Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 40203.
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green
Published: 1740
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Colman, John, -- 1670-1753?; Manufactory Company; Land banks -- Massachusetts; Banks and banking -- Massachusetts; Currency question -- Massachusetts; Money -- Massachusetts; Bills of exchange -- Massachusetts
Notes: Signed: J. Belcher. By order of his excellency the governour, with the advice of the Council, J. Willard, secr. ..

Followed by a statement, with 137 signatures, pledging "that we will not, directly or indirectly by our selves or any for us, receive or take any bills emitted on the said scheme, commonly called the Land Bank."

Imprint determined from mortised initial block (Reilly 439)

Text in two columns with the signatures in three columns within second column; printed area measures 24.6 x 16.8 cm.

Bristol B1093.

Shipton & Mooney 40203.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 731.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40203)