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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...thereof; that the rates of depreciation since that period have ranged from 12 to 8 per cent., thus niching from the working man from one-eighth to one-twelfth of the nominal amount received as the wages of his labor. That the practical operation of this state of things in the District is, that while those who are in the service of the Government receive their compensation in gold and silver, their neighbors are compelled to receive, Blair & Rives, primers. as a return for their labor, depreciated bank paper; thus constituting, emphatically, one currency for the Government and another for the people. They therefore pray your honorable body to take such measures as may, at the earliest possible day, compel the banks of the District to fulfil their obligations, by the resumption of specie payments; or that they be required to assign their property for the benefit of their creditors, and wind up their affairs. Lund Washington, jr. John Ward, Jesse F. Harper, Benjamin Evens, W. Devereux, J. E. Dow, Richard Cone, Isaac C. Smith, Grafton Powell, Joseph M. Munding, Edward Stubbs, William H. Dietz, N. T. Arnold, R. J. Morsell, A. W. Parris, H. C. Williams, James Towles, James B. Phillips, William P. Mohun, John Y. Bryant, Richard R. Shekell, J. W. Hollis, A. Tho. Smith, F. S. Myer, William W. Curran, Ch. Murray, Thomas Smallman, P. Kenna, Gideon Pearce, Th. B. Reily, James Alden, John D. Clark, John Heart, Nicholas J. Harpur, James Maher, Bernard McClosky, John McMahon, Daniel K. Worth, E. Brown, Richard W. Clarke, John Shaw, Oscar Alexander, Edward Pritchard, H. Walker, James N. Davis, D. G. Day, John M. Wane, William L. Jones, S. H. Rich, Theodore E. Smith, Michael Crider, George Dexter, James R. Blaisdell, J. D. Chedal, James F. Whitney, ...
