BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES #145 (American Classics in History & Social Science Series #19) Miscellaneous Papers, ON POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. This book is printed on paper with a longevity expectancy of three hundred years and with at least twenty-five per cent rag content. Miscellaneous Papers, ON POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. ་་་་་ 1. AN ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS ADMINISTRATION. 11. AN ESSAY, ON THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRAL NATIONS, IN VINDICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES ASSERTED BY THE NORTHERN III. A LETTER, ON THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE IV. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, IN THE UNITED STATES. BY NOAH WEBSTER, JUN. BURT FRANKLIN RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES #145 699252 012 CORRECTIONS. THE Auther not having an opportunity of revising the proof sheets of the following Papers, several errors have escaped the printers : Page 5, 7. 11, read persons; and 7. 22, read feature. p. 12, . 19, read effectually. p. 27, l. 21, for no read an. p. 32, l. 8, for no read an. p. 35, l. 7 from bot. read apportionment. p. 51, 7. 11 from bot. after case insert can. p. 59, l. 2 from bot. erase and. p. 75, l. 9 from bot. for departed read dissipated. p. 83, l. 11 from bot. read a nation at peace. p. 85,/. 6, read Oleron. p. 93, l. 11, read Rapin. p. 104, l. 7 from bot. for his read its. p. 108, l. 16, read form. p. 112,7. 4, read taken, and last line read still. p. 118, l. 4 from bọt. for his read its. p. 132, first line, read modification. p. 142, 7. 5 and 6, erase and Denmark. p. 147, l. 18, for repeal read usual. p. 156, l. 8 from bot. read executive duty, and 1. 6 from bot. for proper read paper. p. 168, last l. from bot. for Lupis read Scipio. p. 182, last . for war read peace-l. .2d for is read are. p. 185, l. 16, read innavigable. p. 172, l. 3, read garrison-l. 11, from bot. read construction. p. 191, l. 9, from bot. read misleads. In the advertisement perfixed to the history of Banks, in the sixth line, read tolerably correct. p. 4, on banks, l. 13, for meeting read mutiny. p. 5, l. 14 from bot, read specie value. p. 12, l. 8, for official read non-official. p. 19, l. 17, for conduct read conduit. p. 35, l. 26, for wills read wells. p. 41, l. 6, from bot. for increased read invested. p. 43, against Union Bank read 1792-and in the footing of the capitals of the Banks two cyphers are omitted.-The sum is 23,612,000.Wherever the word stocks occurs in the plural, it should be stock. NOTE. WHILE this work was in the press, the Capital Stock of the Hartford Bank was augmented to $207,600, and the New-York Marine Insurance Company applied to the Legislature for an act of incorporation-see p. 32. During the same time, information has been received that the Bank of Nantucket was established and incorporated in May, 1795. Its capital was to have been $40,000-but in June of the same year, it was robbed of about 21,000. Its present capital is $20,262. |