Currency issues
Document 1786Letter to the Board of Treasury regarding various currency issues.
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by me, and that he has so well imitated my Signature, that it is almost impossible to detect them. I am therefore apprehensive that the Loan Officers may by this means have been imposed on & have therefore to request your attention to the detection of any Person who shall offer such duplicate, for the Payment of Interest, and that you will see if on the back of some of them, there is not marked in Roman figures the Number of the Certificate in Persons hand in which Case you may be very certain that the Certificate is a bad ones & and will requires the utmost attention that the Persons through whose hands the same has passed should be Known —
J.P.
The Loan Officers of the
different States.
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Gentlemen Office of Army Accounts
November 2d 1786.
I In Conformity to the directions of the Board of the 28 Ulto I have considered the subject of Mr Grahams Letter of the 23 Sept & beg Leave to Submit the following Opinion —
1. That the States were bound by the Acts of Congress and must rely on them for their Authority to Support
Type
Letterbook
Description
Letter to the Board of Treasury regarding various currency issues.
Date
11/02/1786
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Office of Army Accounts
Repository
Document number
1786110221055
Page start
176
Notable persons
Board of Treasury
John Pierce
Nathaniel Gorham
Congress
commissioners
soldiers
militia
Notable locations
Office of Army Accounts
States
Union
Notable items
Allowance
currency
specie
paper money
depreciation
wagons
continental dollar
clothes
clothing
substitence
