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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: following petition and remonstrance was read in the House of Assembly on the fifteenth instant
    sub title: and as it has been said to be "improper, indecent and insulting," the subscriber wishes to give the world an opportunity of judging on its merits, and therefore presents this printed copy of it
  name:
    name part: Fitch, John
    name part: 1743-1798
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Pennsylvania
    name part: General Assembly.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Broadsides.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 1789
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 44 x 42 cm.
  note: John Fitch. ; To the honorable the representatives of the freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly.
  note: Concerning the bill, "An act for vesting in James Rumsay [i.e., Rumsey], Esquire, the exclusive privilege of making, using and vending divers engines, machines and devices by him invented or improved, for a term of years." Fitch believed this bill to be in violation of his legal rights as granted by a law passed in March, 1787, and of the power of Congress "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" as delegated in the eighth section of the Constitution.
  note: The petition is signed and dated: John Fitch. September 11, 1789.
  note: Text in four columns; printed area measures 36.5 x 33.2 cm.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Bristol B6946
  note: Shipton & Mooney 45475
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45475).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rumsey, James
      name part: 1743?-1792
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pennsylvania.
      name part: General Assembly.
  subject:
    topic: Inventions
    geographic: Pennsylvania
  subject:
    topic: Inventors
    geographic: Pennsylvania
  subject:
    topic: Patent laws and legislation
    geographic: Pennsylvania
  subject:
    topic: Patent laws and legislation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Pennsylvania
      city: Philadelphia
  related item:
    note: Bristol B6946
  related item:
    note: Shipton & Mooney 45475
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 45475
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 810501
    record change date: 20260330214741.0
    record identifier: in00002163452