Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States

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Harvard University Press, 1917 - Business & Economics

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Page 348 - The Corporation for the relief of the widows and children of clergymen in the communion of the Church of England in America...
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Page 14 - His primary object was, however, to secure an easy communication between the states, which the free intercourse now to be opened seemed to call for. The political obstacles being removed, a removal of the natural ones, as far as possible, ought to follow.
Page 87 - These extravagant sallies of speculation do injury to the government, and to the whole system of public credit, by disgusting all sober citizens, and giving a wild air to every thing.
Page 56 - All the influence of the moneyed men ought to be wrapped up in the Union, and in one bank. The State banks may become the favorites of the States. They, the latter, will be pressed to emulate the example of the Union, and to show their sovereignty by a parade of institutions, like those of the nation.
Page 255 - States ; to take the earliest means for erecting and establishing in each Colony a Society for the improvement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and to maintain a correspondence between such societies, that the rich and numerous natural advantages of the country for supporting its inhabitants might not be neglected. They were further recommended to consider of ways and means of introducing the manufactures of duck, sail-cloth, and steel where they were not already understood, and...
Page 123 - Whereas, it is the desire of the representatives of this Commonwealth to embrace every suitable occasion of testifying their sense of the unexampled merits of George Washington, Esq., towards his country ; and it is their wish in particular that those great works for its improvement, which, both as springing from the liberty which he has been so instrumental in establishing, and as encouraged by bis patronage, will be durable monuments of his glory, may be made monuments also of the gratitude of...
Page 14 - To grant charters of incorporation in cases where the public good may require them, and the authority of a single State may be incompetent...
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Page 15 - Mason was for limiting the power to the single case of Canals. He was afraid of monopolies of every sort, which he did not think were by any means already implied by the Constitution as supposed by Mr. Wilson.

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