The secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives, a statement of the actual tonnage employed betwen the United States and foreign countries for a year, ending the 30th of September, 1792 : which is the statement that remained to be reported, of those required by the order of the 3d instant / Treasury Department, January 10, 1794.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of the Treasury.

Contributor:

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.

Childs, Francis, 1763-1830, printer.

Swaine, John, 1762?-1794, printer.

United States. Congress 1793-1794). House.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tonnage--Early works to 1800.

Tonnage.

Genre:

Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 23 x 53 cm

Other Title:

Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives, a statement of the actual tonnage employed between the United States and foreign countries for a year, ending the 30th of September, 1792

Fingerprint:

y.N, 4.T, 49S. a.2. (S) 1794 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine], [1794]

Notes:

Completing the "Report of the secretary of the Treasury respecting the tonnage of vessels, made in pursuance of an order of the House of Representatives of the third of January, 1794", printed in Philadelphia by Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1794] (Evans 27946).

Caption title.

Dated and signed: Treasury Department, January 10th, 1794. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury.

Local Notes:

RBC copy is no. 37 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 v. 1.

Cited in:

ESTC W39522

Clapp, C.B. "Alexander Hamilton's reports." In The University of Pennsylvania library chronicle v. 9, no. 2 (June 1941): 52-64, v. 2, no. 21

OCLC:

826372375

Online:

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