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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845

1 March 1845 • Saturday, continued Page 1 4 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 32 11 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 77 18 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 131 22 March 1845 • Saturday Page 181 25 March 1845 • Tuesday Page 231 5 April 1845 • Saturday Page 266 11 April 1845 • Friday Page 267 15 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 327 22 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 349 29 April 1845 • Tuesday Page 355 6 May 1845 • Tuesday Page 361

Source Note

See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.

Historical Introduction

See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
stated the prices of the different kinds of type. To go on with our busness in a profitabl manner, it would require about four hundred pounds of type, the average price of which would be about fifty cents pr pound. We also want about one hundred pounds of job type, and about fifty dollars worth of rules and astronomical characters for almanacs. It will require about six hundred dollars worth of rules and type to put us in a situation to do a good business. In about one year, we shall want another press. We can get along probably for this year with the two presses we have. We can manufacture many of the articles we want, in , for instance, imposing stones and Chases. We can manufacture them cheaper [p. [313]]
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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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Footnotes

  1. Rules were raised strips that were used to print lines and borders. (Rummonds, Nineteenth- Century Printing Practices, 1:249–250; 2:1032.)

    Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. 2 vols. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2004.

  2. A chase is a “rectangular cast or wrought iron frame” into which pages of type (known as a form) are locked in preparation for printing. An imposing stone is a “perfectly flat, smooth surface, usually polished stone or cast iron, upon which the compositor imposes and corrects his forms.” (“Chase,” “Form,” and “Imposing Stone,” in Rummonds, Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices, 2:976, 990, 998.)

    Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. 2 vols. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2004.

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