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Report of Tonnage Duties Received in Each of the States, [11 May 1790]

Report of Tonnage Duties Received
in Each of the States

Treasury-Department, 11th. May 1790.
[Communicated on May 11, 1790]1

[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]

The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits an Abstract of the duties which have accrued on the Tonnage of ships or vessels, from the first day of September to the thirty first day of December last, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives of the fifth Instant.2

Abstract of Duties which have accrued on the Tonnage of foreign and domestic Vessels from the first of September to the thirty first of December 1789.
States.	Foreign Tonnage.	Domestic Tonnage.	Total Amount of Tonnage.
New Hampshire	469. 50	339. 30	808. 80
Massachusetts	4 829. 37½	3 855. 60	8 684. 97½
Connecticut	618. 8	722. 47½	1 340. 55½
New York	8 739. 87½	1 496. 66½	10.236. 54
New Jersey	83. 50	224. 31	307. 81
Pennsylvania	11.587. 64	1 515. 6	13.102. 70
Delaware	603. —	123. 96	726. 96
Maryland	4.994. 5½	1 728. 88½	6 722. 94
Virginia	11.210. 93½	1 423. 30½	12.634. 24
South Carolina	4 630. 59	433. 84	5 064. 43
Georgia	2 600. 17	126. 65	2 726. 82
	50.366. 72.	11.990. 5	62.356. 77

Alexr. Hamilton.
Secy. of the Treasury.

Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1790–1791, Vol. I, National Archives.

1. Journal of the House, I description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826). description ends , 214.

2. The House ordered:

“That the Secretary of the Treasury report to the House the amount of tonnage duties paid in each of the States from the first of September to the first of January last, distinguishing the foreign from the domestic tonnage.” (Journal of the House, I description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826). description ends , 209.)

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Title: Report of Tonnage Duties Received in Each of the States, [11 May 1790]
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Cite as: “Report of Tonnage Duties Received in Each of the States, [11 May 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0285. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 414–415.]