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An argument to prove, that it is the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public to insist, that government do forthwith bring forward the consideration of the state of the Nation : in order to ascertain, as near as may be, the annual receipts and expenditure of the State ...

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An argument to prove, that it is the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public to insist, that government do forthwith bring forward the consideration of the state of the Nation : in order to ascertain, as near as may be, the annual receipts and expenditure of the State ...

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Half-title: Lord Stair's argument to prove the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public

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[2] leaves, 52 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

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An argument to prove, that it is the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public to insist, that government do forthwith bring forward the consideration of the state of the Nation : in order to ascertain, as near as may be, the annual receipts and expenditure of the State ... / by John Earl of Stair. The second edition. London : Printed for J. Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, MDCCLXXXIII [1783].

"Price eighteen-pence."--in square brackets on the half-title.

Signatures: [A]2 B-G4 H2

Rockefeller Library copy with the signature of Ralph Leycester dated 1783 on half-title page.

Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James S. Copley.

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English short title catalogue, T97798

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Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of, 1720-1789, “An argument to prove, that it is the indispensible duty of the creditors of the public to insist, that government do forthwith bring forward the consideration of the state of the Nation : in order to ascertain, as near as may be, the annual receipts and expenditure of the State ...,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed December 14, 2025, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/4081.