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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.

Author/creator Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)
Other author/creatorBelcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green], [1740]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 31 x 20 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40203. ^A478749
General noteSigned: J. Belcher. By order of his excellency the governour, with the advice of the Council, J. Willard, secr. ...
General noteFollowed 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."
General noteImprint determined from mortised initial block (Reilly 439).
General noteText in two columns with the signatures in three columns within second column; printed area measures 24.6 x 16.8 cm.
References Bristol B1093
References Shipton & Mooney 40203
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 731
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. First series ; no. 40203).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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