1Cash Accounts, 1761 (Washington Papers)
The law required the purchaser to pay the tax on imported slaves (4
2Notes on Debates, 29 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
...the yearly revenue from a 5 per cent tax on imports and prizes during the war at $600,000...
3Report on Address to the States by Congress, [25 April] 1783 (Madison Papers)
...did on a former occasion, was a tax on imports. The reasons which recommended this branch of...
4To George Washington from David Stuart, 8 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
..., for the purpose of fixing on similar taxes, on imported articles, with the States of Maryd &...
5The Federalist No. 32, [2 January 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...the authority of the States to impose taxes on imports and exports, and an affirmance of...
6New York Ratifying Convention. Third Speech of June 28 (Melancton Smith’s Version), [28 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...ye genl. govt. to the necessy. of laying all taxes on imports—
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...state, will be to be raised by tax on imports, which will thus be overburthened: whereas...
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...in their hands. They must push therefore the tax on imports as far as it will bear, and...
9Enclosure: Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 12 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
...in their operation: that is, to prevent taxes on imports or Exports; preferences to one port...
10Notes on Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank, [16–21 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
...intercourse, undiminished in their operation: that is, to prevent taxes on imports or Exports;