?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, to Customs Collector of Newport William Ellery, requesting more information on Rhode Island lighthouse expenses, explaining a Collection Law including the extent of "[t]he prohibition of Importing Goods into the United States in Vessels under thirty tons . . . ," and explaining another Collection Law which "prohibits the allowance of drawback on Fish & all Goods not exported in the same Cask or package in which they were imported." 1 1/2 pages, 4to, with integral blank; docketed on terminal page. Treasury Department, 27 August 1790
