Index to vessels in impost books of the New Bedford custom house records, 1814-1868.

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Index to vessels in impost books of the New Bedford custom house records, 1814-1868.

Impost volumes containing accounts of cargoes brought into the port of New Bedford and duties paid by American and foreign vessels.

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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...