Pennsylvania History: A journal of Mid-Atlantic studies ; v. 83, no. 4
Summary
Abstract: From 1715 to 1730, Pennsylvania’s provincial legislature passed economic reform that transformed the colony into an enviable commercial center. Provisions enacted included liquor duties, flour inspection laws, and feme sole statutes, but the crowning achievement was a public loan office that issued loans to farmers in the form of paper money. Historians have shown how the Pennsylvania General Loan Office improved business conditions in the colony following an economic depression. Scholars have paid less attention to the implications of financial innovations such as paper money for economic thought and culture conceived broadly in early America. Using Pennsylvania as a case study, this article argues that paper money issued by public land banks in the British colonies not only improved colonial economic conditions, but also formed the basis of a fiscal and constitutional order founded on legislative control over local currencies and an extrinsic notion of value that pegged economic worth to the provincial community.
Journal des Senates der Republik Pennsylvanien, welches zu Lancaster feinen Anfang genommen, Midwochs, den funften November, im Jahr unfers Herrn ein tausend acht hundert, und der Unabhangigkeit der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im fulnf und zwanzigsten
Gedurckt bey Johann Albrecht und Comp. in der Prinz-Strasse
Date of Publication
1800.
Physical Description
356, 66, 6, 16, 13-21, p (fol.)
Notes
"Einnahme und Ausgabe der Schazkammer der Republik Pennsylfvanien, vom Ersten Jenner bis zum neun und zwanzigsten November 1800, bende Talge mit eingeschlossen."--66 p., 2nd count, with separate title page. Also issued separately.
"Bericht des General-Controlleurs der Republik Pennsylvanien."--6 p., 3rd count, with separate title page, dated 1800. Also issued separately? (Not in Evans.)
"Bericht des General-Registrators vom dem Zustand der Finanzen der Republik Pennsylvanien, fulr das Jar 1800."--16, 13-21 p., 4th count, with separate title page. Also issued separately.
Through Feb. 27, 1801.
Bookplate of the Mechanics' Library Association, Lancaster, Pa., No. 4657.
Three-quarters leather, mostly lacking, as is spine.
Journal of the first session of the eleventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, on Wednesday, the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
Printed by Francis Bailey, in the square north-east of the court-house,
Date of Publication
1800[-1801]
Physical Description
[2], 474, 67, [1], 21, [1], 6 pages ; (folio)
Notes
Through Feb. 27, 1801.
Coat of arms on title page.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the twenty-ninth of November, 1800, both days inclusive." "Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the twenty-ninth of November, 1800, both days inclusive."--67 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
"Report of the comptroller-general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--6 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
"Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania. From the first of January to the thirtieth of November, 1800, both days inclusive."--21 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
Journal of the first session of the eleventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, on Wednesday, the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
Printed by Francis Bailey, in the square north-east of the court-house.,
Date of Publication
1800[-1801].
Physical Description
[2], 474, 67, [1], 21, [1], 6 p. ; (fol.)
Notes
Through Feb. 27, 1801.
Coat of arms on title page.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the twenty-ninth of November, 1800, both days inclusive." "Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the twenty-ninth of November, 1800, both days inclusive."--67 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
"Report of the comptroller-general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--6 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
"Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania. From the first of January to the thirtieth of November, 1800, both days inclusive."--21 p., with separate title page, dated 1800.
Journal of the first session of the ninth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-third
Errors in paging: p. 209, 429 misnumbered 109, 329.
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1798, both days inclusive."--61, [1] p., Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the register-general of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year M, DCC, XCVIII."--17, [1] p. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799--Report of the arrears of taxes due from th eseveral counties, of the state of Pennsylvania, and some remarks thereon.-8 p. [p. 8 lacking] Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1799.
