Butler, Pierce (1744-1822) The regulation of Commerce or Revenue...
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00819.15 Author/Creator: Butler, Pierce (1744-1822) Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph manuscript Date: 25 August 1787 Pagination: 1 p. ; 15 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Half sheet regarding the federal government's regulation of ports. Blank on verso. Date from Hutson.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
No Regulation of Commerce or Revenue shall extend to giving the Ports of One State any preference to those of Another State--Nor to oblige Vehicles bound to or from One State, to pay any Toll or Duty in any other--[inserted: but the State they have Cleared out for] Neither shall [inserted: they] meet with any Stopage [sic] Molestation or Hindrance from the forts or Batteries of any other State--The Legislature of the different States shall have full power to Establish such ports of Entry and Clearance in their Individual States as they may think proper.
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