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AMERICAN HISTORICAL "ASSOCIATION.
MosES AusTIN TO JAMES BnYAN
Mr JAMES BRYAN
Herculaneum You will please pay Mr A. Brown forty Nine Dollars Eighty five Cents·for the purchase of four bbls of Salt and ... ~losES AusTIN [Rubric] Octbr 20 th 1814 49 Dolhrs 85 Cents
:RUFus EASTON TO :MosEs A usTIN
Washington N ovr 18 th 1814°
DEAR Sm, . I am anxious to obtain and as soon as pos~ible all the information which can be had in relation to the lead mines-and I Jmow of no person better able to give correct information on the subject [than] yourself-any ideas you may think proper to communicate as to the manner of leasing the public mineral lands will be very acceptable tom~ I wish to be informed as to the present prices given for minera]- the profits to be derived from smelting-the probable revenue to be derived to the United States from leasing-what the prices of -min-· eral lead were before and since the war-go into as much detail in your communication as you can find it convenient to make- The house of Representatives are now engaged in discussing the Bill for the establishment of a national bank-to revive the public credit which at present appears to be .at a low ebb- As soon as the. fiscal concerns are accomplished we may expect immediate provisio.ns in detail for raising .an·army as I hope sufficient to expel entirely the· • British from the Continent and to coerce the Indians to friendly intercourse and [mutilated] us- I think Mr. Munroes first plan [an] admirable one- By reading the [debates] of congress some of which I shall send you on the subject of the Bank [you] will better· discover the state and condition of the Banks on this side of the mountains -than I can inform you by letter Suffice it to say in this place you cannot get a picaun in silver and bills for one cent are in circulation No one bank will receive the paper of another with- out a discount of from 10 to 12 per cent..:_ I had not arrived when the first section of the Bill to incorporate the U.S. bank was under consideration in committee of the whole. - The territories h9:d all been omitted I succeeded to day in one amendment authorising the directors to establish offices where soever they shall think fit in the territories for the purposes of discount deposit and distribution-and think_it would be much better if they
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