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MEMORIAL OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PRAYING A REPEAL OF THE EXISTING DUTY ON BOOKS IMPORTED, OR AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT, AS THEREIN ... This Senate documents prints the memorial from America's foremost learned society asserting that that any tax on imported books is "detrimental to the progress of knowledge" and asking that those duties be suspended. The memorials, written by Peter Duponceau and R.M. Patterson, review the policies of other governments toward duties on imported books, providing a useful survey of the tax policies of the major European powers. OCLC and American imprints together locate only five copies, at Yale, the University of Virginia, the New York Law Institute, the Library of Congress, and Princeton. Scarce.

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