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FRANKLIN ORDERS PAYMENT OF LARGE SUM OF
PAPER MONEYTO LOAN OFFICE
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FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Document Signed, “BFranklin / Presid’t,” as President
of the Executive Council of PA, ordering Treasurer David Rittenhouse to pay £15,000 “of
the new Emission of paper money” to the Trustees of the General Loan Office.
Countersigned by Comptroller General John Nicholson. 6x7
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upper and lower and left edges with minor loss to text at upper edge, faint dampstaining at
lower edge, receipt signatures by Rittenhouse and others verso, folds.
Philadelphia, 6 December 1785
[5,000/7,500]
WITH
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Retained copy of typed document, granting the Papers of Benjamin Franklin permission to
reproduce the “Order signed by Benjamin Franklin . . . to pay to the ‘Trustees of the General Loan
Office FifteenThousand Pounds . . .‘.” Signed by Editor LeonardW. Labaree.