Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 20 January 1790

From Benjamin Lincoln1

Boston, January 20, 1790. Discusses the type of boat that should be used to prevent smuggling. States that “As all drawbacks on goods … & bounties paid on articles exported too often operate as Caches on the revenue of a country the greatest barriers possible should be placed around it to prevent the practice of frauds of every kind.”

ADf, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury and Others, 1789–1818, Vol. 11, National Archives.

1. This letter is in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 1, 1789.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 20 January 1790
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    Lincoln, Benjamin
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    20 January 1790

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 20 January 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0094. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 194.]

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