General Records of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 56).

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General Records of the Department of the Treasury (Record Group 56).

This record group includes records of the Office of the Secretary and its subdivisions and those of units performing service functions for the entire Department.

There are 4,027 cubic feet of records dated between 1775 and 1968 in this record group.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6693024

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...