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Hercules Ross (1745-1816) of Rossie Castle, Montrose, friend of Lord Nelson, Scottish merchant in the Jamaican slave trade, whoBiblio.com

Hercules Ross of Rossie Castle Forfarshire friend of Lord Nelson Jamaican merchant who later denounced the slave trade. Autograph Letter Signed

Best.-Nr. 26299‘Rossie Castle Montrose 19th. June 1804.’. See the entry on his son Horatio Ross 1801-1886 – named after his father’s friend Lord Nelson who was the boys godfather and died the year after the writing of this letter - in the Oxford DNB. 1p 4to. Twenty-two lines of closely and neatly written text. In good condition lightly aged and creased with strip of paper from mount to one edge. With fold lines. The recipient is addressed as ‘My dear Sir’ and not named and the letter signed ‘H. Ross’. Written in a spirited style. The commencement indicates the spirited style in which the letter is written: ‘You’ll be surprized at my still dating from hence but owing to our friend Mr. Mure being at Harrowgate my letters have travelled thither which has until this morning delayed the receipt of Mr Black’s which your letter of the 6th. Gave me reason to expect and I learn by it that the necessary authority has been transmitted to Mr. Shawe so that I have now no longer any excuse for lingering here; and infact sic this evening I shoud have step’d off but I have received notice of a Visit from Mr. Alexander McLeod & his Wife whom I have never seen – altho’ he was many years my abbreviation ‘Auy’. I shall only delay the morning on their Account – and afterwards God willing proceed on leisurely.’ He urges the recipient to return with him: ‘I pledge myself that you will be highly satisfied with your Journey – You’ll enjoy one of the finest spots to be seen any where; & become one of a chearful people where you’ll not miss the Opera or I’m mistaken -’. He ends with a paragraph discussing ‘the complete termination of my business at the Auditors and their Report on my public accounts – Even & quit – without one exception – thank God!’ He complains about his treatment and announces his resolve to ‘apply for my expences’. ‘Rossie Castle Montrose 19th. June 1804.’ unknown

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[American slavery; the slave trade] John Jackson, Benjamin Price, Deborah F Wharton, clerks, Society of Friends (Quakers), PhilaBiblio.com

Philadelphia Society of Friends Quakers and slavery 1839. Printed pamphlet: 'An Address to the . Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia By the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the Subject of Slavery.

Best.-Nr. 22684Philadelphia: Printed by John Richards No. 130 North Third Street. 1839. The full title is: 'An Address to the Quarterly Monthly and Preparative Meetings and the Members thereof composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia By the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the Subject of Slavery.' 12pp 12mo. Pamphlet in original plain brown wraps. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Begins with two pages of extracts from the minutes 17 May 1839 regarding the setting up of the committee on 'the deeply interesting subject of Slavery' with reference to 'Benjamin Price Jr. Clerk' and 'Deborah F. Wharton Clerk.' The address itself 'Signed by direction and on behalf of the Committee by John Jackson Clerk' is eight pages long. Towards the beginning it notes that 'Many of our forefathers were slave-holders and the unrighteous practice of holding our fellow-creatures in bondage was not then forbidden by our discipline.' The change of policy is described with reference to 'Anthony Benezet and John Woolman'. Later the address notes: 'The advancement of this righteous concern and the increase of light upon the subject of human rights are causing this system of iniquity to totter to its base. Hence under the influence of fearful excitement many are putting forth their strength to impede the progress of principles which if ultimately triumphant will break the fetters of the slave. A part of the trading interests at the North is evidently involved with those of the South and an influence is in this way exerted against the onward course of Emancipation; thus light and darkness antagonize each other.' And later still: 'Within a few years great events hae occurred in relation to Slavery and much light has been spread on the subject. The experience derived from Emancipation in the British West Indies has opened a new era. . while we have painful evidence that a great body of slave-holders are influenced by injustice and cruelty . There are many whose consciences are burdened by a system which they derived from their ancestors . the money of the slave-trader is temptingly held up before them; . they cannot separate the tender ties of family connexion among their slaves; they dare not receive the price of blood. . We believe they are fervently desiring the deliverance of master and slave from the bondage to which both are subjected. Their hearts have bounded with joy at the success of Emancipation in the British West Indies; it has opened a door of hope thaty they also may be legally permitted to prove the advantage of requited labour over that which is extorted by the lash of the oppressor. .'. The entries on OCLC WorldCat are not clear but the item is uncommon. Philadelphia: Printed by John Richards, No. 130 North Third Street. 1839. paperback

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American Chamber of Commerce in France, Incorporated (Editor)Biblio.com

Americans in France; A Directory

1938Best.-Nr. 82843Paris: American Chamber of Commerce in France Incorporated 1938. Fourteenth Edition stated. Presumed first printing thus. Stiff boards. Good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 7.5 inches. xxiv 554 pages. Illustrated endapers. Stamp of the American Embassy on free end paper and stamp and signature and location of previous owner on second fep. Some cover wear and soiling. Cloth strip as page marker. Some looseness at hinges--heavy book for the hinges. Illustrations. Tabbed Sections with unpaginated illustrated dividers. General Index of American Officials Organizations Societies & Clubs Franco-American and International Organizations in which American participate. American Residential Directory: Home Business and Mil Addresses. American Commercial Directory: American firms establishes or represented in France Alphabetical Listing See also American classified trades and professions. American Classified Trades and Professions: See American Commercial Directory for Alphabetical Listing. General Information: Schools for Americans Chamber of Commerce in Paris Clubs and Sports Establishments in Paris Clubs Athletics and gold Environs of Paris Embassies Legations and Consulates in Paris Hotels in Paris Museums Restaurants in Paris Tea-rooms in Paris Theatres Concert-Halls and Motion Picture Houses in Paris Travel in Europe Railways Airways & Information Offices and Steamships Travel; and the final section on Advertisers: Home and Decoration a carpentry contractors decorators electrical installations flooring painting mosaics shades tapestries works of art; b heating plumbing roofing sanitary installation ventilation; Landscapists and Florists Pharmacies and Ambulances etc. This work constitutes a unique book of reference and by the completeness of its contents has become virtually indispensable to all Americans who live in France and to all others who require a convenient and trustworthy source of information concerning their names and addresses and their business and social affiliations. This 1938 fourteenth edition was the published in the last full year of peace before the German onslaught into Poland in September 1939 formally initiated the Second World War. As such it represents a marvelous snapshot in time of Paris before the world was shattered. It provides a unique surviving source of information as to the number and location of American expatriates living in France and also provides insight into the business and recreational entities available to them and American tourists and other visitors to France. Resources such as this would also have been used once the war commenced to the Office of Strategic Services the Special Operations Executive and other military diplomatic and humanitarian assistance organizations during wartime. American Chamber of Commerce in France, Incorporated hardcover

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United States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, ManufacturingBiblio.com

Takata Airbag Ruptures and Recalls; Hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade of the Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives one Hundred Thirteenth Congress Second Session December 3 2014m Serial No. 113-183

2014Best.-Nr. 80508Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office December 3 2014. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iii 1 260 pages. Some wear to covers. Includes opening statements from Hon. Lee Terry Hon. Janice D. Schakowsky; Hon. Fred Upton; and Hon. Henry A. Waxman. Witnesses include Hiroshi Shimizu; Rick Schostek; Craig Westbrook; Abbas Saadat; and David J. Friedman. Material was submitted on test results for Takata Airbag Ruptures and Recalls by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Safety recalls are often marked by tragedy; that is what brings it to our attention. But they are even more troubling when the very equipment being recalled is intended to save lives. Now this morning we will begin piecing together the history of a safety defect that became known only by what appears to us as fits and starts and seemingly has several potential causes. The first known rupture occurred in 2004 in Alabama. Three more ruptures in 2007 led Takata to identify a bad stamp press at a manufacturing facility in Moses Lake Washington. In 2008 Honda recalled 3940 cars in the U.S. however two more airbags ruptured in May and June of 2009 one of which killed the driver. At that point it appears that Takata believed the airbag inflators were being improperly exposed to moisture during the production process. However about that time Takata confirmed that a stamp press was to blame for the at-risk airbags. In early 2011 uncertainty about the cause of the continuing ruptures led to another recall. Previous recalls were expanded in late 2012 upon the discovery that Takata's production records were in disarray. NHTSA demanded that manufacturers broaden the recalls to the national level. On November 8 2014 NHTSA called for a national recall on all vehicles containing driver-side Takata airbags with defective inflators. This defect also affecting millions of passenger-side airbag inflators as well is known to have been the cause of at least seven deaths and an untold number injuries in vehicles made by ten different vehicle manufacturers. Many of these injuries and deaths were caused by shrapnel created due to the explosive rupture of the Takata airbag inflator and associated housing often in low-speed impacts. As of March 2015 recalls covering 11.5 million vehicles had been issued on various Chrysler Ford General Motors Honda Mazda BMW Nissan Mitsubishi Subaru and Toyota vehicles. NHTSA's action came eleven years after the first reported fatality due to Takata airbags after six years of ever-expanding Honda recalls related to the defective Takata airbags and after a failed attempt by the agency to correct the problem using geographic recalls. The first recall on Takata airbags 08V-593 was issued by Honda in 2008 and included 3940 vehicles. Six years and ten recall expansions later Honda acknowledged that as many as six million vehicles contained the deflective inflators. NHTSA's first defect investigation into the matter PE14-016 began on June 11 2014 six days after NHTSA and Takata agreed via conference call to a series of service campaigns that would replace defective airbag inflators only in the "high absolute humidity" states of Puerto Rico Florida Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands. At the time of the agreement Takata informed the agency that all six known inflator rupture events had taken place in Florida and Puerto Rico. U.S. Government Publishing Office paperback

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US Senate, Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications U SBiblio.com

Freedom of Communications Final Report of the Committee on Commerce United States Senate Prepared by its Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications Pursuant to S. Res. 305 86th Congress; Part III The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Other 1960 Campaign Presentations 87th Congress 1st Session Senate Rept. 994 Part 3

1961Best.-Nr. 80525Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1961. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. xiv 699 3 pages. Wraps. Cover has some wear and soiling. 51 entries listed in the Table of Contents. Index. Laid in is a handwritten note by Senator Warren Magnuson then Chairman of the Committee on Commerce on a United States Senate Memorandum sheet that says "I thought you would be interested in this. Warren Magnuson USS". From the Preface "Parts I II and III of the Final Report constitute a unique record in American Political History. For the first time we have the complete press conferences speeches remarks and statement of the two major candidates for the Presidency throughout the presidential campaign period. Here then is the presidential campaign of 1960. I Chairman Magnuson am confident the Senate and the public will find these volumes of continuing interest and use as a general reference work." NOTE: This final version has additional material which was not available to the subcommittee at the time of the original subcommittee print of July 27 1961 as well as a comprehensive index. The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday November 8 1960. In a closely contested election Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon the Republican Party nominee. This was the first election in which fifty states participated and the last in which the District of Columbia did not. It was also the first election in which an incumbent president was ineligible to run for a third term because of the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. It is also the last election where the losing candidate won Ohio. Nixon faced little opposition in the Republican race to succeed popular incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy a junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts established himself as the Democratic front-runner with his strong performance in the 1960 Democratic primaries including a key victory in West Virginia over United States Senator Hubert Humphrey. He defeated Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson on the first presidential ballot of the 1960 Democratic National Convention and asked Johnson to serve as his running mate. The issue of the Cold War dominated the election as tensions were high between the United States and the Soviet Union. Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory and is generally considered to have won the national popular vote by 112827 a margin of 0.17 percent though some argue that Nixon should be credited with the popular vote victory as the issue of the popular vote was complicated by the presence of several unpledged electors in the Deep South. Fourteen unpledged electors from Mississippi and Alabama cast their vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd as did a faithless elector from Oklahoma. The 1960 presidential election was the closest election since 1916 and this closeness can be explained by a number of factors. Kennedy benefited from the economic recession of 1957-58 which hurt the standing of the incumbent Republican Party and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans. Furthermore the new votes that Kennedy the first Roman Catholic president gained among Catholics almost neutralized the new votes Nixon gained among Protestants. Kennedy's campaigning skills decisively outmatched Nixon's who wasted time and resources campaigning in all fifty states while Kennedy focused on campaigning in populous swing states. Nixon's emphasis on his experience carried little weight for most voters. Kennedy used his large well-funded campaign organization to win the nomination secure endorsements and with the aid of the big-city bosses get out the vote in the big cities. Kennedy relied on Johnson to hold the South and used television effectively. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback

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Kendall, Nathaniel W and Seltzer, Marjorie L, (staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Transport Economics and StBiblio.com

Gray Area of Transportation Operations; Statement No. 6010 File No. 51-D-7

1960Best.-Nr. 75640Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1960. Presumed First Edition First printing. Staplebound. Good. iv 114 pages. Map. Occasional footnotes. Cover has some wear soiling and edge tear. Small area blacked out on front cover. This study was issued as information and had not been adopted by the Interstate Commerce Commission ICC when published. The ICC was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads and later trucking to ensure fair rates to eliminate rate discrimination and to regulate other aspects of common carriers including interstate bus lines and telephone companies. Congress expanded ICC authority to regulate other modes of commerce beginning in 1906. The agency was abolished in 1995 and its remaining functions were assigned to the Surface Transportation Board. The Commission's five members were appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate. This was the first independent agency or so-called fourth Branch. The "gray area" as used in this staff study of the Commission refers to transport operations which lie between legitimate private carrier and the transportation authorized by Government regulatory bodies. Thus the term is used to denote unauthorized transport operations often conducted under the guise of legitimate private carriage. This study deals with the character extent and distribution of gray area operations in highway transportation and other modes; important effects of gray area operations on the transportation system; enforcement activities of the Commission; and certain suggestions which have been made for remedial action. It also contains general information concerning exempt transportation although operations by exempt carriers unless the operations are unauthorized do not fall in the gray area as defined. U. S. Government Printing Office unknown

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United States Interstate Commerce CommissionBiblio.com

Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States December 1919 To Frebruary 1920: Interstate Commerce Commission Reports Volume 56

1920Best.-Nr. 66469Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1920. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. xvi 850 pages. Table of cases reported. Table of cases cited. Opinions of the Commission. Supplemental Reparation Orders. Index Digest. Cover has some wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. From Wikipedia: "The Interstate Commerce Commission ICC was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads and later trucking to ensure fair rates to eliminate rate discrimination and to regulate other aspects of common carriers including interstate bus lines and telephone companies. The agency was abolished in 1995 and its remaining functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board. The Commission's five members were appointed by the President with the consent of the United States brought into law by President Grover Cleveland. The creation of the commission was the result of widespread and longstanding anti-railroad agitation. Western farmers specifically those of the Grange Movement were the dominant force behind the unrest but Westerners generally especially those in rural areas believed that the railroads possessed economic power that they systematically abused. A central issue was rate discrimination between similarly situated customers and communities. Other potent issues included alleged attempts by railroads to obtain influence over city and state governments and the widespread practice of granting free transportation in the form of yearly passes to opinion leaders elected officials newspaper editors ministers and so on so as to dampen any opposition to railroad practices. Various sections of the Interstate Commerce Act banned "personal discrimination" and required shipping rates to be "just and reasonable." The Commission had a troubled start because the law that created it failed to give it adequate enforcement powers. "The Commission is or can be made of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the popular clamor for a government supervision of the railroads while at the same time that supervision is almost entirely nominal."-William H. H. Miller US Attorney General circa 1889. Following passage of the 1887 act the ICC proceeded to set maximum shipping rates for railroads. However in the late 1890s several railroads challenged the agency's ratemaking authority in litigation and the courts severely limited the ICC's powers. Congress expanded the commission's powers through subsequent legislation. The 1893 Railroad Safety Appliance Act gave the ICC jurisdiction over railroad safety removing this authority from the states and this was followed with amendments in 1903 and 1910. The Hepburn Act of 1906 authorized the ICC to set maximum railroad rates and extended the agency's authority to cover bridges terminals ferries sleeping cars express companies and oil pipelines. A long-standing controversy was how to interpret language in the Act that banned long haul-short haul fare discrimination. The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 addressed this question by strengthening ICC authority over railroad rates This amendment also expanded the ICC's jurisdiction to include regulation of telephone telegraph and wireless companies." Government Printing Office hardcover

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