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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNAL CURRENCY

By

J. THEODORE HARRIS, B.A.

With a Preface by SIDNEY WEBB, LL.B.

1/- NET

LONDON P. S. KING & SON ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER 1911

PEOPLE'S BANKS

A RECORD OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS

By H. W. WOLFF

_Third Edition, Newly Revised and Enlarged_ _Demy 8vo, Cloth, 600 pp._ =6s.= _net_

CONTENTS--Introduction, The General Idea, The Two Problems, The Two Aspects of the Question, Credit to Agriculture, The "Credit Associations" of Schulze-Delitzsch, Raiffeisen Village Banks, Adaptations, "Assisted" Co-operative Credit, Co-operative Credit in Austria and Hungary, The "Banche Popolari" Italy, The "Casse Rurali" of Italy, Co-operative Credit in Belgium, Co-operative Credit in Switzerland, Co-operative Credit in France, Offshoots and Congeners, Co-operative Credit in India, Conclusion.

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LONDON: P. S. KING & SON ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER

STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Edited by the Hon. W. PEMBER REEVES, Director of the London School of Economics

No. 21 in the Series of Monographs by Writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science

AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNAL CURRENCY

AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNAL CURRENCY:

THE FACTS ABOUT THE GUERNSEY MARKET HOUSE

COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS BY J. THEODORE HARRIS, B.A.

WITH A PREFACE BY SIDNEY WEBB, LL.B.

LONDON P. S. KING & SON ORCHARD HOUSE, WESTMINSTER 1911

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: An Example of Communal Currency by Harris
• 2: An Owenite survivor or a Chartist veteran was to be found
• 3: To the ordinary Guernsey housekeeper and shopkeeper
• 4: So far as the island currency was concerned
• 5: Only first hand enquiry on the spot would suffice
• 6: 10 Connetables or Parishioners
• 7: 000 left only L600 for unforeseen expenses and improvements
• 8: Jean Lukis and Daniel de Lisle
• 9: The plan of John Savery Brock at a cost of L5
• 10: Authorising the issue of L5 Notes
• 11: An issue of L1 Notes up to L11
• 12: 1827 An individual with an income of L9
• 13: Campagnard in the Gazette of 28th February
• 14: James Carey and Jean le Marchant
• 15: Consisting not in smuggling themselves
• 16: And future maintenance of those embankments
• 17: Contributes to the embellishment of the town
• 18: 600 0 0 The former obligation amounts
• 19: 4 to the permanent increase of their revenues
• 20: 740 Deduct from this the balance still due by the Market
• 21: Had refused to confer with the Commercial Bank
• 22: The drafts are paid in States Notes
• 23: As regards the circulation of paper money
• 24: To hinder the circulation of the States Notes
• 25: Le Bailiff to reply as follows 'Court House
• 26: Your obedient humble servant Daniel De Lisle Brock
• 27: Or was it a unique and deplorable economic tragedy
• 28: With a letter on the Referendum in Belgium by M
• 29: Cobden and Adam Smith Prizeman
• 30: Model Rules for such with Annotations