Excerpt from The Social Survey, Its History and MethodsThe revenue of the territory and early commonwealth of Missouri seldom met current expenses, there was frequently, as we have seen, a considerable ¿oating debt. Little attention was paid to this, however, and the only legislative acts of the territorial government that might have created a debt were: (1) That of 1813, creating the Bank of St. Louis, in which the territory of Missouri might...
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