Alexander Hamilton Papers

Report on Exports for the Year Ending September 30, 1791, 17 April 1792

Report on Exports for the Year
Ending September 30, 1791

Treasury Department, April 17, 1792.
[Communicated on April 17, 1792]1

[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]

Sir:

In obedience to an order of the House, of the 2d instant,2 I transmit an abstract of the goods, wares, and merchandise, exported from each State, from the 1st October, 1790, to the 30th September, 1791.3

Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ASP description begins American State Papers, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Washington, 1832–1861). description ends , Commerce and Navigation, I, 147.

1Journal of the House, I description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), I. description ends , 580.

2On April 2, 1792, the House “Ordered, That … the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to this House, in the course of this session, the quantity and value of the exports from each State, any thing in the order of the tenth of November last to the contrary notwithstanding” (Journal of the House, I description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), I. description ends , 556).

3The abstract of exports, dated April 12, 1792, and signed by Tench Coxe, may be found in ASP description begins American State Papers, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Washington, 1832–1861). description ends , Commerce and Navigation, I, 148–55.

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