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State of Indiana finances and public works in 1841
Samuel Bigger outlines the confounding debt from internal improvements, bank strain, and looming specie resumption. He urges careful reform, calls for tighter economy, discusses land claims for canal work, bank solvency, prison reform, and education, and stresses neutral investigation and prudent measures to restore credit.
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