RELIEF OF THE STATES--PUBLIC LANDS. Report of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland, from the Select Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States appointed on the 29th December, 1842, on Sundry memorials, Praying Congress to pass a Law Directing that Stock of the United States to the Amount of $200,000,000, Be Credited or Distributed Among the States Territories, and District of Columbia, for Relief of the People; with an appendix containing numerous statistical statements in relation to public lands, debts, imports, exports, &c., &c.
Washington, [D.C.]: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1843. First edition, 27th Congress, 3d Session, House of Reps. No. 296. 8vo. x, 574 pp. An essay by John J. Wallis, Richard Sylla, and Arthur Grinath entitled "Land, Debt, and Taxes: Origins of the U.S. State Default Crisis, 1839 to 1842," [revised..... More