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(Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1793). First edition. Folio, 12 x 7 3/4 in. (305 x 197 mm). (1)-20, (folding plate), 22-26 pp., text complete, but misnumbered after p. 20, including final leaf (26), mislabeled 29. Printed Treasury Department report; signed in type by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. With one folding chart, headline trimmed away. Gatherings stitched as issued, thread sound; all edges trimmed; scattered wear along extremities; text leaves very lightly worn; very small loss in bottom gutter, pp. 5-8; in board chemise and slip case. Ford 256; Evans 26349

Rare printed Treasury Department report detailing projected expenditures by the federal government for the year 1794. Includes reporting on sources of revenue, duties on imports and tonnage, provision for payment of interest on balances due to the individual states, as well as interest on the public debt. Also printed is expenditures for the Civil List for the various branches and departments of the federal government, including the executive, both houses of Congress, the War Department, Indian Department, etc. Finally, printed toward the rear is a list of the revenue and appropriations for 1789-93, the amount of duties and tonnage accrued from January-June 1793, and monies transferred to the United States out of the proceeds from foreign loans.

We cannot locate a copy of this report ever being offered at auction.