Taney, Roger B. to Benjamin Knight
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02797 Author/Creator: Taney, Roger B. Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter signed Date: 20 March 1834 Pagination: 1 p. + docket Order a Copy
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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