Digital Commonwealth

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    <mods:nonSort>An </mods:nonSort>
    <mods:title>Act to prevent Paper Bills of Credit, hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America ...</mods:title>
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    <mods:dateCreated encoding='w3cdtf' keyDate='yes'>1764</mods:dateCreated>
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  <mods:abstract>Sinking Credit, Sinking Fortunes From the outset, colonists have lacked an adequate supply of money. To supplement their scarce British currency, they have used materials like Indian shell money (wampum), stamps, animal skins, and foreign coins as a means of exchange. At times, to respond to immediate needs, colonial legislatures have issued their own paper money-some of which the mother country has outlawed, some of which it has ignored. This state of affairs has kept everyone more or less happy most of the time. England's trade is booming, colonial merchants are occasionally able to pay their bills with devalued notes, London merchants are flexible enough to cover periodic losses, and people throughout the realm are receiving the goods they want. On 19 April 1764, however, George Grenville, in his eagerness to rationalize colonial fiscal policy, tips the scales. This published version of the Currency Act is an unbound pamphlet. It is comprised of a title page, Anno Regni Georgii III; Regis ..., and a sequence of four pages (471-474) containing the text of the act. London: Mark Baskett, 1764</mods:abstract>
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    <mods:topic>Letters of credit</mods:topic>
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