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- GLC#
- GLC01044
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- December 13, 1790
- Author/Creator
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
- Title
- Report on public credit. Appendix Treasury Department, March 4, 1790
- Place Written
- New York
- Pagination
- 7 p. : folio ; Height: 34 cm, Width: 22 cm
- PDF Download(s)
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- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Written by Hamilton as an appendix to his Public Credit report and issued six weeks later. He recommended raising duties on imported liquor and enacting an excise tax on domestic Whiskey. (This tax eventually led to the Whiskey Rebellion).
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