Treasury Department, February 15, 1791 : Sir, I do myself the honor to transmit through you to the House of Representatives, a general return of the exports of the United States, abstracted from Custom-House returns, commencing on the various days in August, 1789, whereon they were respectively opened, and ending on the 30th of September last ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.

Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824.

Fenno, John, 1751-1798, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial statistics--Early works to 1800.

Commercial statistics.

United States--Commerce--Statistics--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Commerce.

Genre:

Statistics.

Penn Provenance:

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (former owner) (RBC copy)

Kuhl, Henry, 1764-1856 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

s.ER y.t, r,t, e,e. (C) 1791 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by John Fenno], [1791]

Notes:

Addressed to the speaker of the House of Representatives and signed by Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the Treasury.

Title from beginning of text.

Imprint supplied from Evans.

Signatures: [A]².

Without pagination.

"Abstracts of the exports of the United States, from the commencement of the Custom-Houses in the several states, which were at different times in August, 1789, to the 30th day of September, 1790."--P. [2-4].

"A summary of the value and destination of the exports of the United States, agreeably to the foregoing abstract. ... Treasury Department, February 15th, 1791. Tench Coxe, assistant secretary."--P. [4].

Local Notes:

RBC copy is no. 11 in a collection of 50 18th-century U.S. government documents, most by Alexander Hamilton and a few by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and others, bound in 2 volumes (13 in the first volume and 37 in the second, including two manuscripts).

RBC copy formerly owned by Alexander Hamilton, with ms. contents list of v. 1 in his hand on last blank leaf in volume. Cf. C.B. Clapp, "Alexander Hamilton's reports" in The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941), p. 52-64.

RBC copy has autograph of Henry Kuhl on title leaf of first work in volume.

Cited in:

Evans 23927

ESTC W1861

Clapp, C.B. "Alexander Hamilton's reports." In The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941): 52-64, v. 1, no. 11

OCLC:

23439997

Online:

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