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Title:
  • At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America : begun and holden by adjournment at Newport, within and for the said colony, on Monday the twelfth of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight, and thirty first of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth. : An act for assessing and levying upon the inhabitants of this colony, a rate or tax of six thousand pounds, in the bills of lawful money dated in August, one thousand seven hundred and and fifty-six; and also a rate or tax of one hundred and ten thouand pounds in bills of the old-tenor.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1758 No.2
Summary note:
  • Includes the names of 26 towns with their respective assessments in "Lawful Money" vs. "Old-Tenor" tabulated in five groups.
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Newport, R.I. :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by James Franklin,
Imprint Date:
  • 1758]
Physical Description:
  • 1 sheet (2 p.) ;
  • 31 x 18 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,
  • Bristol Shipton & Mooney Winship
  • 206
  • B2000 41010 p.16
Notes:
  • Act of the June, 1758 session.
  • Text taken from first lines of text. Imprint supplied by Alden.
  • Includes the names of 26 towns with their respective assessments in "Lawful Money" vs. "Old-Tenor" tabulated in five groups.
  • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
  • RIHS copy 2 in Providence Town Papers, MSS 214, SG1, vol. 3 #0876.
Location:
  • Broadside Collection: G 1157
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