To the public : On the 17th day of May, 1781, the following plan was submitted to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled: Plan for establishing a national bank, for the United States of North-America

Name:

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806; United States. Continental Congress; Bank of North America

Date:

1781

Language:

English

Provenance:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (former owner)

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Banks and banking -- United States; Banks and banking; National banks (United States); Finance -- United States; Finance; Broadsides

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Broadsides; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 42 x 34 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Followed by the resolves of Congress, dated May 26, 1781, approving the plan, and explanations.; Signed and dated: Robert Morris. Philadelphia, May 28, 1781.; At foot: We, the subscribers, having read the above plan ... sign our names, and opposite thereto, affix the number of shares for which we subscribe ...; Text in three columns.; Broadside.; Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on verso which reads "Proposal for a Bank 1781".; Culture Class Collection copy acquired in 1903 as part of the Benjamin Franklin Papers.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Mapcase AB7 B2257 781t

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Benjamin Franklin Papers (University of Pennsylvania)