Treasury Department, April 25, 1794 : Sir, I have the honor to transmit herewith, a report, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives, of the twenty-eighth of February last, accompanied with the copy of a contract with the Bank of the United States, referred to in the said report ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of the Treasury.

Contributor:

Childs, Francis, 1763-1830, printer.

Swaine, John, 1762?-1794, printer.

United States. Congress. House 1793-1794)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debts, Public--United States--Early works to 1800.

Debts, Public.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

S.ER N,t, R,t, e,s, (C) 1794 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Childs and Swaine?], [1794]

Notes:

Letter of transmittal, addressed to the speaker of the House, signed: A: Hamilton.

Title from beginning of text.

Ascribed to the press of Childs and Swaine by Bristol.

Signatures: [A]².

Local Notes:

RBC copy is no. 42 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:

Bristol B8975

Shipton & Mooney 47304

ESTC W28252

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. 25

OCLC:

58672239

Online:

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