Item #2331977 Banks in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Annual Report on the Banks in the United States. (House of Representatives. 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 25.) [Constitution of the Banks]. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Portland.

Banks in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Annual Report on the Banks in the United States. (House of Representatives. 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 25.) [Constitution of the Banks]

[Washington, DC]: [Government Printing Office], 1863. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2331977

Spine and edges faded, mild mottled discoloration of boards.

211 pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles. A government report detailing the state of banking in the United States during the American Civil War, a time at which counterfeiting and forgery of currency was so rife that the Secret Service was created to combat it, two years after the publication of this work. Numerous statistical charts throughout.

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