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Treasury Department, July 20th, 1790 : In obedience to the order of the House of Representatives, of the twentieth of January last the secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports, that in the formation of a plan for the disposition of the vacant lands of the United States, there appear to be two leading objects of consideration ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio HJ8105 1790 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Department of the Treasury.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. General Land Office--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- United States. General Land Office.
- Land settlement--United States--Early works to 1800.
- Land settlement.
- Southwest, Old--History--Early works to 1800.
- Southwest, Old.
- Northwest, Old--History--1775-1865--Early works to 1800.
- Northwest, Old.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Kuhl, Henry, 1764-1856 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages ; 34 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1790]
- Notes:
- Title from caption title and opening lines of text.
- Signed on p. 4: Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury.
- Printers' names from colophon; imprint place from Evans.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is no. 47 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:
- Evans 23004
- ESTC W18476
- 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. 30
- OCLC:
- 54262547
- Online:
- Unique at Penn blog post
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