To the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States.

• imprint_number: 1816.109
• title: To the president and directors of the Bank of the United States, at Philadelphia. Gentlemen, At a numerous meeting of the citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth, convened the 11th inst. to take into consideration the propriety of applying to you, for the establishment of a branch of the Bank of the United States, at this place, the following, amongst other resolutions, was unanimously adopted: …
• sequence_number: 109
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Norfolk
• issuing_press: Shields, Charlton, & Co.
• author: Citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
• notes: Item carries caption title only, so lacks an imprint; content herein dated November 1816, so establishing date; the American Beacon was the main newspaper in Norfolk then advocating the establishment of a branch of the Bank of the United States in the port town, and some of the material presented herein was published in the journal in that fall; hence the attribution here to the partnership then publishing the Beacon.
  
  
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