Alexander Hamilton Signed 7.5x9 1792 Treasury Department Circular BAS #AG010005
This Autographed 7.5x9 July 22nd, 1792 Treasury Department Circular has been Personally Signed by Alexander Hamilton. This item is 100% Authentic to include a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) / hologram by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website.
Three pages on two adjoining sheets, printed Treasury Department circular issued to all collectors of customs. In part: "When an appeal was made to me, by certain Officers of the Customs, respecting the fees to which they were entitled under the Coasting Act, I took the only method then in my power, to aid my own judgment to a right decision. The Attorney General not being at the seat of Government, I applied to two of the most able Counsel in the city of New-York, (one of whom is the Attorney of the United States for the District) for their opinions. I carefully examined the law, myself; and, agreeing with those Gentlemen in the construction of it, I signified the result in a Circular communication…
Had I not been in continual expectation, that a new law would have obviated the difficulty, I should have taken much earlier measures to settle the question in some definitive, and, if possible, satisfactory mode. But session after session having passed, and further delay being still possible (though I confidently reckon on a new Coasting law in the course of the next session) I have thought it incumbent upon me to bring the affair to an issue…
In this state of a matter, which so directly concerns the interests of the Officers, I think it proper to rescind the instruction heretofore given; though my own view of the subject remains unchanged. Each Officer will then pursue that course, which appears to him conformable to law, to his own interest and safety, and to the good of the service. Having said that my view of the subject remains unchanged, I think fit to specify more particularly, than I have yet done, the reasons which govern it."
Three pages on two adjoining sheets, printed Treasury Department circular issued to all collectors of customs. In part: "When an appeal was made to me, by certain Officers of the Customs, respecting the fees to which they were entitled under the Coasting Act, I took the only method then in my power, to aid my own judgment to a right decision. The Attorney General not being at the seat of Government, I applied to two of the most able Counsel in the city of New-York, (one of whom is the Attorney of the United States for the District) for their opinions. I carefully examined the law, myself; and, agreeing with those Gentlemen in the construction of it, I signified the result in a Circular communication…
Had I not been in continual expectation, that a new law would have obviated the difficulty, I should have taken much earlier measures to settle the question in some definitive, and, if possible, satisfactory mode. But session after session having passed, and further delay being still possible (though I confidently reckon on a new Coasting law in the course of the next session) I have thought it incumbent upon me to bring the affair to an issue…
In this state of a matter, which so directly concerns the interests of the Officers, I think it proper to rescind the instruction heretofore given; though my own view of the subject remains unchanged. Each Officer will then pursue that course, which appears to him conformable to law, to his own interest and safety, and to the good of the service. Having said that my view of the subject remains unchanged, I think fit to specify more particularly, than I have yet done, the reasons which govern it."
Alexander Hamilton Signed 7.5x9 1792 Treasury Department Circular BAS #AG010005
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