Report on Imports for the Year Ending September 30, 1790, 23 November 1791

Report on Imports for the Year Ending September 30, 1790

Treasury Department
Nov. 23. 1791.
[Communicated on November 24, 1791]1

[To the President of the Senate]

Sir

I have the honor to transmit to the Senate, in further obedience to their order,2 an estimate exhibiting the value, at the several places of shipment, of all foreign goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, during the year ending on the 30th. day of September 1790.3 The principal objects of this document are to exhibit the portion of our consumption which is supplied by each foreign nation, and the aggregate value of the whole of our importations.

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, Sir, Your most obedt. & most humble servt.

Alexander Hamilton

The Vice President of the United States
and President of the Senate.

LS, RG 46, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, National Archives.

1. Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , III, 31.

2. Although the entry in the Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends states that the Senate order was dated February 16, 1791, the only order recorded for that date is a request for a report on exports rather than imports. See Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). description ends , II, 1801.

3. This “estimate,” which is not printed 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, has not been found.

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Title: Report on Imports for the Year Ending September 30, 1790, 23 November 1791
Authors: Treasury Department
Hamilton, Alexander
Date: 23 November 1791

Reference

Cite as: “Report on Imports for the Year Ending September 30, 1790, 23 November 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0389. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 526–527.]