Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects : published during the American War, and continued up to the present year, 1791

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Main Author: Webster, Pelatiah, 1726-1795.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by J. Crukshank ..., 1791.
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Table of Contents:
  • An essay on the danger of too much circulating cash in a state
  • An essay on free trade and finance
  • A second essay on free trade and finance
  • A third essay on free trade and finance
  • A fourth essay on free trade and finance
  • A fifth essay on free trade and finance
  • Strictures on tender-acts
  • An essay or humble attempt to examine and state the true interest of Pennsylvania with respect to the paper currency
  • An essay on the economy, policy, and resources of the thirteen states, and the means of their preservation
  • A dissertation on the nature, authority, and uses of the office of a financier-general
  • Remarks on the resolution of council, of the 2d of May, 1781, for raising the exchange to 175 continental dollars for 1 hard
  • Strictures on a publication in the Freeman's journal of May 16, 1781, signed Timoleon
  • Strictures on two publications in the Freeman's journal of May 30, 1781, signed, Phocion, and Impartial
  • A dissertation on the political union and Constitution of the thirteen United States
  • A sixth essay on free trade and finance
  • A seventh essay on free trade and finance
  • A plea for poor soldiers
  • A review of the principles and arguments of the two foregoing essays ...
  • An essay on the seat of the federal government and the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress over a ten mile district
  • Remarks on the address of sixteen members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to their constituents, dated Sept. 29, 1787
  • The weaknesses of Brutus exposed
  • An essay on credit
  • Strictures on the net produce of the taxes of Great-Britain in the year 1784
  • An essay on test-acts imposed with penalties
  • An essay on the extent and value of our western unlocated lands
  • Scales of depreciation of continental money
  • A chronological table of remarkable events.