The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 7, February 16, 2003, Article 7

AMERICAN MEMORY PROJECT

  Alan Meghrig writes: "I try to keep tabs of the American
  Memory project, where Congressional Documents and
  Debates are being placed on the Internet.

  This search can lead you to George Washington.  Go to
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
  and enter 'a small beginning  (coinage)' as your search
  criteria.  This can lead you to this November 6, 1792
  entry:

  "In execution of the authority given by the Legislature,
  measures have been taken for engaging some artists from
  abroad to aid in the establishment of our Mint; others have
  been employed at home. Provision has been made of the
  requisite buildings, and these are now putting into proper
  condition for the purposes of the establishment.  There has
  also been a small beginning in the coinage of half-dismes;
  the want of small coins in circulation calling the first
  attention to them.

  The regulation of foreign coins, in correspondency with the
  principles of our national coinage, as being essential to their
  due operation, and to order in our money concerns, will, I
  doubt not, be resumed and completed."

  My most recent visit notes the expansion of the U.S Serial
  Set and the Addition of America State Papers.  See
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html   for pre-civil
  war Mint reports... etc."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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