Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a report made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 9, 1816 : requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the next session of Congress whether any, and if any, what, alterations are necessary to equalize the duty on the capacity of stills, boilers, and other instruments used in distillation.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of the Treasury.

Contributor:

Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.

Anderson, Alexander, Colonel

United States. Congress. House.

United States. Congress 1816-1817)

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distillation apparatus--Taxation--United States.

Distillation apparatus.

Alcohol--Taxation--United States.

Alcohol.

Alcohol--Taxation.

Distilleries--Law and legislation.

Distillation apparatus--Taxation.

United States.

Distilleries--Law and legislation--United States.

Distilleries.

Physical Description:

58 pages ; 22 cm

Contained In:

United States. Congress (14th, 2nd session : 1816-1817). [State papers, v.2]

Place of Publication:

Washington : Printed by William A. Davis, 1817.

Notes:

At head of title: 32.

"January 13, 1817, read, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means."

Letter addressed to the Speaker of the House and dated Treasury Department, 13th January 1817.

Consists of the cover letter from the Secretary; a report by the Commissioner of the Revenue, dated Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 30th, 1816; and documents related to the compiling of the report, including (p. 17-42) a letter from Samuel L. Mitchell, dated New-York, Sept. 20th, 1816, and (p. 43-58) 3 letters from Alexander Anderson.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker 42630

Greely, A.W. Public documents, p. 805

OCLC:

10508270