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- GLC#
- GLC02797
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 March 1834
- Author/Creator
- Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
- Title
- to Benjamin Knight
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Printed circular letter to collectors of the customs. Requests a statement of the amount of specie imported and exported through the station for the last three months. Hereafter the collector is to make weekly reports of these amounts: "Those statements will specify the places from which imported, or to which exported; the names of persons importing or exporting; the amount imported or exported by each, and whether in coin or bullion." Knight was Collector of the Customs of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Signed as Secretary of the Treasury.
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