Sir, I submit the annexed preamble and resolution to your serious and sober consideration I am thoroughly convinced that if any city bank were to receive the notes of any country bank, paying specie, and to demand specie for them, with the alternative to the latter, of paying interest on balances that might accrue, it would unhesitatingly adopt this alternative, and thus relieve our citizens from a disgraceful and odious tax - Carey, Mathew (Published by Mathew Carey, 1817)
Followed on p. [2] by: March 31, 1817. Whereas the notes of various incorporated banks in the interior of this state ... are at a depreciation, notwithstanding those banks have resumed the payment of specie ... Therefore resolved ... to remove from the state, the disgrace of the depreciation of the notes of its chartered banks–and to relieve the citizens from a hideous abuse, by which they have been too long plundered of a portion of their honest earnings. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 40403. - Signed and dated: Mathew Carey. Philadelphia, March 31, 1817