A Treatise on Currency & Banking

A TREATISE

ON

CURRENCY AND BANKING.

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BY

CONDY RAGUET, LL.D.,

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PHILADELPHIA; LATE CHARGE D’AFFAIRES OP THE UNITED STATES AT THE COURT OP BRAZIL, AND AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE TRADE ILLUSTRATED.”

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“It is the interest, of every country that the standard of its money, once settled, should be inviolably and immutably kept to perpetuity. For whenever that is altered, upon whatever pretence soever, the public will lose by it.

“ Men in their bargains contract, not for denominations or sounds, but for the intrinsic value.—LOCKE ON MONEY.

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Second Edition.

PHILADELPHIA:

GRIGG & ELLIOT, BOOKSELLERS, No. 9 NORTH FOURTH STREET,

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1840.