Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, June 1 -- Dec. 31.

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Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, June 1 -- Dec. 31.

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Letterpress copybook containing telegrams sent and received by the Secretary of the Treasury between June 1, 1863 and Jan. 1, 1864. The correspondents include members of the military command, legislators, collectors of the customs of New York, San Francisco, and Portland (Me), the Treasury employees, lawyers, businessmen, etc. The telegrams concern collection of the duties, including those imposed on the sales of arms and supplies for the army, Southern cotton, and whiskey; regulations of the shipment of goods, including in the areas that are "within reach of the rebels" and Lincoln's ban on a sale of Prussian arms to Guatemala and shipment of livestock; revenue steamers; bids on government contracts; design and printing of fifty and hunderd dollar denomination greenbacks and arrests of counterfeiters; appointments of collectors and other personnel issues. Also discusses are the conflict over Farralon Islands (San Francisco); Pennsylvnia during the Gettysburg campaing (including a proposal to "form a company for city defense made up in part of revenue officers" of Philadelphia); draft riots in New York, the question of opening of the Mississippi for commercial shipping in the wake of the victory at Vicksburg; Lincoln's push for restoring legislative and judicial authority in Florida, Mississippi, and other Southern states under the Union control; providing arms for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, etc.

1 letterpress book, 26 cm. with received telegrams pasted in.

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