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Report Of The State Treasurer, Upon The Finances Of Pennsylvania,: To The Legislature Of The State, At The Commencement Of The Session Of 1844. Printe

Report Of The State Treasurer, Upon The Finances Of Pennsylvania,: To The Legislature Of The State, At The Commencement Of The Session Of 1844. Printe

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ISBN10: 9354504833
ISBN13: 9789354504839
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Money leaves footprints. Follow them to 1844 Pennsylvania. Issued to the 1840s Pennsylvania legislature at the opening of session, this state treasury report lays out the hard numbers behind policy: state budget and receipts, expenditures, balances, and the burdens of public debt and bonds. It is a legislative finance document with the pulse of a young industrial state - clear tables, official statements, and the practical language of governance. For readers curious about how a commonwealth kept its books before modern agencies, it offers a direct, unfiltered look at Pennsylvania public finances, right down to what was collected, what was paid, and what remained owed. Behind the columns sit schools, roads, and relief, and the quiet tension between ambition and means. Even casual readers will feel the era's anxieties: what to fund, what to defer, how to explain it to representatives and citizens. Each figure is accountability made public in the state's own voice. As an economic history primary source, it anchors research into antebellum American finance, infrastructure-era borrowing, and the political choices recorded in Pennsylvania House proceedings. Genealogists, historians, and public policy professionals will value it as a public policy research reference; collectors will appreciate its place in a broader state fiscal records collection and in the tradition of archival government report reprint editions that keep foundational documents in circulation. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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