By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation [electronic resource] : 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
- Bib ID:
- 3369567
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/40203
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- Description:
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- [Boston : Printed by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green, 1740]
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 31 x 20 cm.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 40203.
- Notes:
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- 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.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Bristol B1093
- Shipton & Mooney 40203
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 731
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 40203). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Other authors/contributors:
- Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1757
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1740
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