To the legislature of Pennsylvania. Imprisonment for debt [electronic resource] : The cruel effects and the suffering resulting from imprisonment for debt, and its almost universal inefficacy in producing satisfaction of the claims of the creditor, have for a long time attracted public attention ...

Author:: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Published:: [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1830]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 33 x 20 cm
Additional Creators:: Pennsylvania. General Assembly

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Encouraging quick passage of a law "abolishing imprisonment for debts under five dollars." Signed and dated: Hamilton [i.e., Mathew Carey]. Philadelphia, March 5, 1830.
Followed by a series of resolutions "unanimously adopted at a numerous and respectable meeting, held in New York" supporting the view "that the law of imprisonment for debt ought to be abolished."
Printed area measures 30.1 x 15.5 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 3830).

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