Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from William Banks, 1 March 1792

From William Banks1

[Philadelphia] March 1, 1792. Recommends various ways by which the collectors of customs could improve their record keeping and reports on exports.

Copy, Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1. Banks was a clerk in the register’s office of the Treasury Department. On at least one other occasion Banks made similar recommendations concerning management or administrative matters in the Treasury Department. See Joseph Nourse to H, August 17, 1792 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , XII, 222).

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    To Alexander Hamilton from William Banks, 1 March 1792
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    Banks, William
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    1 March 1792

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from William Banks, 1 March 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0317. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 650.]