Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 8 September 1792
Treasury Department Circular
to the Collectors of the Customs
Treasury Department September 8th. 1792.
Sir
I am to request your attention to the in-closed Paper and that in the Columns opposite the described Article of Merchandise or Package (for containing them,) the rates of Freight which are paid from your Port to the Countries expressed in the Head Lines be inserted, and returned to me as early as the Inquiry will admit.
With great consideration I am Sir Your obedient Servt.
A Hamilton
LS, to Jeremiah Olney, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; L[S], to Benjamin Lincoln, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1807, Vol. 4, National Archives; LS, to Otho H. Williams, Columbia University Libraries; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.