Author: Various
Title: National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, Vol. IX, No. 1358
Description: Washington City, Samuel Harrison Smith, 1809. Issue no. 1358, June 23, 1809; 20 x 12 3/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with two small, engraved vignettes and a table; deckled edges; period signature to upper margin of pp. 1; the two leaves separating - not affecting readability; old creases with small punctures at intersecting lines; a small rubbed spot to pp. 2, obscuring a few words; overall in good to very good condition. An early issue of the self-proclaimed "first paper printed in Washington," the tri-weekly, pro-Jefferson, pro-Republican periodical was also the first newspaper in Washington to provide detailed reports of proceedings of the Congress. A large part of the current issue was dedicated to a "Debate on Fortifications" and "Domestic Manufactures." It appeared various resolutions to appropriate sums, varying from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million dollars - for the fortification of the ports and harbors of the Untied States - had been carried since 1806, with the current one being a motion to "strike out the words 'seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,' with a view to insert a smaller sum.." The debate on US manufactures would, undoubtedly, lead to the passing of the Tariff Act of 1816, the first of its kind and designed to encourage domestic manufacturing. Good .

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