President George Washington Announces the Formation of the Treasury Department

Other Alexander Hamilton Offerings

One of Hamilton’s Most Revealing Love Letters to Eliza:
“You are certainly a little sorceress and have bewitched me”
Hamilton Supports Anyone but Jefferson to Replace Washington as President
To Avoid Abuse from “bigots in religion...politics, or...medicine,” Thomas Jefferson Declines to Publish Benjamin Rush’s Private Correspondence

Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
Congress Begs the States for the Power to Regulate Trade and Negotiate Treaties
Thomas Paine’s Day Job While Writing Common Sense: Editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine
For Washington, Hamilton Confirms Receipt of Hessian Troop Movement Intelligence
Hamilton Exposes His Adultery: The Infamous Reynolds Pamphlet
The Only Known Document in Hamilton’s Hand on a Legal Case Involving James Reynolds
Nearly Launching Several Duels Between the Livingstons and Hamilton at Federal Hall, Edward Livingston Slammed Hamilton: “Beware of Him or He Will Ruin You.”
Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
Hamilton’s Advice to Holland Land Company on a New Law Relating to New York State’s Prohibition Against Foreigners Owning Land
Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
Hamilton Countering Biases Affecting New York Taxes
Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
Hamilton LS on Declaration-Signer Philip Livingston's Estate, Ten Years After His Death
A Letter from Phocion to the Considerate Citizens of New-York, on the Politics of the Times, in Consequence of the Peace
The Assumption Plan, Passed as Four Acts of Congress
After Yorktown Victory, Samuel Huntington Congratulates French Foreign Minister
The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
Powerful Anti-Slavery Argument Likely by John Laurens
Accusing Recently Retired Hamilton of Financial Malfeasance
Congress Authorizes a Mint, and President Washington Proclaims the Location of the Permanent Seat of Government
Robert Morris Promissory Note,
Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
The Prospectus for Hamilton’s “Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures”
“An Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States”
The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

Click to enlarge:

Currently offered only as part of the Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution & Founding.

“I do myself the honor to transmit to your Excellency the duplicates of two Acts – one for establishing the Treasury department – and one for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON. Letter Signed, September 11, 1789, to Governor Samuel Huntington of Connecticut. 1 p.

Inventory #24853 SOLD — please inquire about other items

Purchase Item Ask About This Item Add to Favorites

To ensure the legal unity of the new nation, Congress made certain that each state had copies of any acts that it passed. On September 15, 1789, Congress made it the duty of the Secretary of State to send two copies of each act of Congress to the executive authority of each state. Prior to the passage of this act, President George Washington sent these copies to the governors of each state.

On September 2, 1789, the First Congress of the United States passed “An Act to establish the Treasury Department.” On the date of this document, September 11, President George Washington submitted his nomination of Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the Treasury, the Senate approved the nomination, and Hamilton took the oath of office. That same day, Congress passed an act that set Hamilton’s annual salary at $3,500. A busy Friday! Hamilton held the office of Secretary of the Treasury until January 1795.

Full Text of “An Act to establish the Treasury Department.”

Provenance

Descended in the recipient’s family, acquired privately in 2017.

On September 1, Congress passed “An Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes.” This act established procedures for registering American ships, granting licenses to trade among the states, and collecting fines and forfeitures for offenses against trade regulations.

Full Text of “An Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes.”

Seth Kaller, Inc.

Inspired by History

Other Alexander Hamilton Offerings