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Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864 to Benjamin Knight

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02797 Author/Creator: Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864 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.

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

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