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The Committee on Manufacturing of the Maine Legislature reported in 1841 on a petition by Luther Cary of Turner and others that the state pay a bounty to encourage farmers to grow mulberry trees and cultivate silk worms.
The committee's response defends the system of payments to encourage and protect the start-up of American production of necessary or desired items to make America independent of foreign manufacturers, but argues that one state cannot provide inducements for industry to compete against foreign manufactures, but only against unfair advantages of other states.
The federal government, the committee argues, should provide bounties or inducements for silk farming and manufacture.
The Senate and the House concurred that the petition should be denied, or withdrawn by the petitioners.
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- Title: Committee on Manufacturing report on silk bounties, Augusta, 1841
- Creation Date: 1841
- Subject Date: 1841
- Location: Augusta, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Legislative Graveyard 1841, Box 142/27
- Object Type: Text
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