By His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esquire, president, and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : whereas divers ill-disposed persons have manufactured, or imported into this state, quantities of base metal, in the similitude of British half-pence ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.

Author/creator Pennsylvania
Other author Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-street, [1781]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 17284. ^A478749
General noteAgainst receiving spurious British half-pence in payment of taxes or other public debts.
General noteSigned: Joseph Reed, president. Attest. T. Matlack, secretary.
General noteState seal at head of title.
References Evans 17284
References Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4146
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Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17284).
Genre/formBroadsides.