By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation. 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. ...
- Title
- By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation. 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. ...
- Author
- Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher).
- Publication
- [Boston :: Printed by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green,
- 1740]
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- Subject terms
- Colman, John, 1670-1753?.
- Manufactory Company.
- Land banks -- Massachusetts.
- Banks and banking -- Massachusetts.
- Currency question -- Massachusetts.
- Money -- Massachusetts.
- Bills of exchange -- Massachusetts.
- Broadsides.
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"By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation. 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. ..." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N30260.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.