Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting 1. A Statement of Payments made during the year 1827, for the discharge of Miscellaneous Claims not otherwise provided for: 2. Of Contracts and Purchases by the Collectors, for the Revenue Services..
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (8vo). Very good- condition. Item #014633
12 pages of text. Measures 26.5cm (height). Illustrated with five folded charts. Probably never bound; original sheets, as printed, long-stitched and untrimmed. Minor to moderate browning and creasing to the extremities. U. S. House of Representatives, Treasury department document #185. Title continues "...during the year 1826: 3. Of Expenditures on account of Sick and Disabled Seamen, during the year 1826: 4. Of Contracts made relative to Oil, Light-houses, Light-vessels, etc. January 30, 1828. Read, and laid upon the table." One of the fold-out charts is a Statement of Contracts made relative to Oil, Light-houses, Floating Lights, Beacons, Buoys, Stakeage, &c. and lists the object or project description and location, the contractor, and the price such as "Fitting up the Light-house at Warwick Neck, in Rhode Island, with patent lamps, reflectors, &c; Winslow Lewis; $300.00."
Price: $35.00