Excerpt from The American Spirit in Education The leaders in these associations were men like Robert Living ston, American ambassador to France; Dewitt Clinton, governor of New York; Samuel Dewitt, surveyor general of New York; and Stephen van Rensselaer. Two college professors were also members of the New York Society. The subjects discussed at their meetings covered a wide range, e. G., methods of fertilization, experiments in growing com, a proposed system of national standards of weights and measures, etc; In 1787, the ...
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Excerpt from The American Spirit in Education The leaders in these associations were men like Robert Living ston, American ambassador to France; Dewitt Clinton, governor of New York; Samuel Dewitt, surveyor general of New York; and Stephen van Rensselaer. Two college professors were also members of the New York Society. The subjects discussed at their meetings covered a wide range, e. G., methods of fertilization, experiments in growing com, a proposed system of national standards of weights and measures, etc; In 1787, the Boston Association of Mechanics and Tradesmen, in a patriotic efiort to protect and develop home industries, sent a citou lar letter to other similar associations urging cooperation. These as sociations took an active part in the struggle for the ratification of the Constitution. But for the firm belief and ardent hope that the Federal Constitution would protect and encourage the manufactures of the United States, it would never have been adopted. In this they were not disappointed, for the first act of the consolidated govern ment (17 89) was a statute for the joint purposes of raising revenue and protecting manufactures by laying duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported. The first Federal patent law was passed in 1790. The ratification of the Constitution, the funding of the national debt, and the establishment of a national banking system furnished a safe basis for industrial development. These fiscal measures also supplied a powerful economic motive for the maintenance of national unity. Hamilton's Report on Manufactures (1791) urged that a Federal Board for Promoting Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures and Com merce be created to encourage by rewards and lucrative premiums, the introduction of useful discoveries, inventions and improvements and to pay the expenses of immigration of artists and manufacturers in important branches of industry. The Federal board was never appointed, but the report had an immediate effect. In 1791, the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture offered prizes for the best farm products. A bill was introduced into the legisla ture of Pennsylvania (1798) levying a public tax of $50 for each member of the legislature, the money thus collected to be offered as rewards for such articles of Agricultural Production or improve ments in Manufactures, or the useful Arts as they shall think will be beneficial to the country. The bill was not passed until 1820. The legislature of New York State began lending money to individuals to enable them to establish and carry on manufactures, and in 1808 passed an act granting premiums for the best specimens of woolen cloth manufactured in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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