AN ADDRESS, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ..
1802 · Hartford
by Wolcott, Olive
Hartford, 1802. 70pp. Dbd. Slight chipping to final leaf. Tanned, light foxing. Good. A detailed discussion of early 19th-century government spending and accounting, with an appended chart of military and naval spending. Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury after Hamilton under Washington and Adams, here defends his spending record while in office in the face of heavy criticism a year after his departure from federal service. SHAW & SHOWMAKER 3577. SABIN 104982 (Inventory #: WRCAM54101)