Pennsylvania General Assembly

In General Assembly, Saturday, February 13, 1779 ... An Act To raise the Supplies for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine [to levy a tax]. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [1779].Folio (16 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.; 412 x 260 mm), 2 leaves, docketed on verso "Tax", signature "John H. Jordan, June 5, 1888" in pencil; somewhat browned, mended at central fold, 2 small stains in lower portion of first leaf, some light marginal dampstains and tape residue. Evans 16444.
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Pennsylvania, ss. By the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, A Proclamation [to observe the Lord's Day and suppress Vice, given 20 November 1782]. [Signed in type:] John Dickinson. T. Matlack, Secretary. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, [1782]. Broadside, 3 copies, folio (16 1/4 x 13 in.; 412 x 330 mm); one clean with tiny fold-tear in right margin, one mounted on paper with embossed stamp of the Library Company of Philadelphia in right margin, one matted with exposed area darker than that under the mat. Evans 17664.

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