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COLLECTION OF DUTIES IN THE SECEDING STATES, &c. Letter from The Secretary of the Treasury...1861
1861 Disbound Very Good Customs Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Calling for information as to whether duties on imports continue to be collected in the ports of entry in certain southern States. "The Secretary of the Treasury be requested to inform this House whether the duties on imports continue to be collected in the posts of entry established by law in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida; and whether any hindrances exist to the law of entry and clearing of vessels...also the present condition of the lighthouses, beacons and buoys... What measures have been take to secure the revenue vessels in the service of the department from seizure..." 32 pp. 36th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 72. Disbound. 1/2"x2" missing piece at side edge of front page-no text affected. Otherwise document is tight, clean and Very Good. Famous Americans in document: John A. Dix (1798-1879), Secretary of the Treasury. He was also a U.S. Senator, Governor of New York and a distinguished Civil War General. A. J. Guirot, Treasurer of the Branch Mint, New Orleans; James Ross Snowden, Director of the Mint; William Hemphill Jones, Special Agent of the Treasury Department and John G. Breshwood, Captain of the U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Robert McClelland'.
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SCIENCE, May 8, 1885. Volume V. No. 118
Cambridge The Science Company 1885 Paper Wraps Good to Good- Science Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" Portraits, Engravings, Map,
Articles by Famous Americans: S. NEWCOMB "Mortality experience of the Connecticut mutual life-insurance Co."; and in Letters to the Editor ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL "The Wisconsin Bill relating to the instruction of deaf-mutes"; and EUGENE A. SMITH " Tertiary phosphates in Albama". Other articles: "Composite Portraits of Members of the National Academy of Sciences" with a full page of 4 portraits protected by a tissue guard; " American Flash Language in 1798" with Tufts's glossary, 1793-98; "Walking and Running" with 5 illustrations; and under Notes and News, a paragraph on the "earlier floods of the lower Mississippi" with a map. Also "Naval architecture in England, and "Recent British locomotives". Paper covers lightly soiled with chipping around edges. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Top right corner of front cover missing,and another piece of top border. Bottom edge piece folded up and corner missing. Tearing at spine. Covers still intact. Overall covers are Good-. First 3 pages' upper corners missing, 1 1/2"x1/2", not on text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+.
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Goodrich, Calvin The GENUS GYROTOMA.
Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Michigan 1924 Paper Wraps Good Zoology Plates
Geological Survey of Alabama. Museum Paper No.7. Alabam Museum of Natural History. Miscellanous Publications No. 12. 33 pages. 2 Plates. ex.mus. stamp on front cover and title page. mildly creased left corner, otherwise Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+.
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