The Works of Alexander Hamilton: FinanceC. S. Francis, 1851 |
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accrue act making provision ad valorem additional advantage ALEXANDER HAMILTON amount annuity appear applied appropriation ascer balance of trade bills borrowed bullion capital centum certificates circulation circumstances coins consequence considerable contract course creditors distilled spirits district dollars domestic duties on imports duties on spirits effect equal established expedient expense exportation favor foreign gallon gold Government greater guilders House of Representatives hundred hydrometer inconvenience instances January labor land less loans manufactures material ment nature necessary object officers operation paid particular payable payment present principal proceeds produce proper proportion proposed public credit public debt purchases purpose quantity rate of interest reason receipts received redemption regard regulation reimbursement render requisite respect revenue Secretary silver sinking fund six per cent specie Staphorst statement submitted subscribed surplus things tion tonnage trade TREASURY DEPARTMENT United vessels William Short
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Página 472 - An Act supplementary to the Act making Provision for the Debt of the United States...
Página 71 - Except into the districts adjoining to the Dominion of Canada, or into the districts adjacent to Mexico, no merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture subject to the payment of duties shall be brought into the United States from any foreign port or place, or from any hovering vessel.
Página 5 - To justify and preserve their confidence; to promote the increasing respectability of the American name; to answer the calls of justice; to restore landed property to its due value; to furnish new resources both to agriculture and commerce; to cement more closely the union of the States; to add to their security against foreign attack; to establish public order on the basis of an upright and liberal policy — these are the great and invaluable ends to be secured by a proper and adequate provision...
Página 209 - The furnishing greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions, which discriminate men from each other. 6. The affording a more ample and various field for enterprise. 7. The creating, in some instances, a new, and securing, in all, a more certain and steady demand for the surplus produce of the soil.
Página 4 - This reflection derives additional strength from the nature of the debt of the United States. It was the price of liberty. The faith of America has been repeatedly pledged for it, and with solemnities that give peculiar force to the obligation. There is, indeed, reason to regret that it has not hitherto been kept; that the necessities of the war, conspiring with inexperience in the subjects of finance, produced direct infractions; and that the subsequent period has been a continued scene of negative...
Página 132 - It is to be considered that such a bank is not a mere matter of private property, but a political machine, of the greatest importance to the State.
Página 468 - for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned...
Página 235 - But, though it were true that the immediate and certain effect of regulations controlling the competition of foreign with domestic fabrics, was an increase of price, it is universally true that the contrary is the ultimate effect with every successful manufacture. When a domestic manufacture has attained to perfection, and has engaged in the prosecution of it a competent number of persons, it invariably becomes cheaper.
Página 148 - I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, TH: JEFFERSON.
Página 468 - An act providing for the payment of the second instalment due on a loan made of the Bank of the United States, passed June 4th, 1794.