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• Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. : In order to redress the distressing circumstances which the trade of the province labours under for want of a medium, other methods having failed, it is proposed to set up a bank on land security, no person to be admitted but such as dwell in this province, and hath a real estate therein.
  Published: (1740)
• 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. ...
  Published: (1740)
• An Account of the rise, progress and consequences of the two late schemes commonly call'd the land-bank or manufactory scheme and the silver scheme, in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. : Wherein the conduct of the late and present g-------r during their ad--------ns is occasionally consider'd and compar'd. : In a letter from a gentleman in Boston, to his friend in London.
  Published: (1744)
• The manufactory scheme. : In consequence of the scheme which is inserted in the book of records of the Manufactory Company, proposing a medium of trade and business by an emission of notes of hand, or bills on land security, redeemable by the manufactures or produce of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay ; the directors (chosen by the subscribers thereto on July 30th last) have unanimously this day agreed on the following articles ...
  Published: (1740)
• An act passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England : begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the thirtieth day of May 1744, and continued by adjournment to Thursday the ninth day of August following.
  Published: (1744)