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    A caveat against injustice, or An enquiry into the evil consequences of a fluctuating medium of exchange, wherein is considered, whether the bills of credit on the neighboring governments, are a legal tender in payments of money, in the colony of Connecticut, for debts due by book, and otherwise, where the contract mentions only old-tenor money. By Philoeunomos.

    Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793. | Date: 1752
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    Essays, I. On the public debt. II. On paper-money, banking, &c. III. On frugality.

    | Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
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    Observations occasion'd by reading a pamphlet, intitled, A discourse concerning The currencies of the British Plantations in America. In a letter to *****.

    | Date: [1741]
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    Several assertions proved, in order to create another species of money, than gold and silver. By Mr. Asgill.

    Asgill, John, 1659-1738. | Date: [1720]
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    A Model for erecting a bank of credit; with a discourse in explanation thereof. Adapted to the use of any trading countrey, where there is a scarcity of moneys: more especially for His Majesties plantations in America. Quo communius eo melius.

    | Date: in the year, 1714
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