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- GLC#
- GLC08759
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- September 16, 1789
- Author/Creator
- Gazette of the United States
- Title
- [Gazette of the United States; no. 45].
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Prints the debate on a permanent capital for the federal government. Contains a long speech by James Madison in favor of the Potomac River as a site for the capital. (See Pendleton-Madison correspondence, GLC00099.144?) Reports a copy of the act to establish the Treasury Department.
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