[Indians, internal improvements, forts] Reports Of The Secretary Of The Treasury Of The United States...Vol. III

by Ingham, S.D. & others

1st ediiton

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Book desription: Washington, , 1837. . 1st ediiton. Orig. law calf w/ red & black leather spine labels. . Senate library notices "To Be Returned To The Senate Library." on front cover & rear cover as issued. Spine somewhat rubbed, nice condition inside ( w/ no fxg.) & out in its unrestored orig. binding. VG. Thick 8vo. . GPO. Voluminous volume on receipts & disbursements with very much on internal improvements & Indians. Covers reports & attached documents from 1829-1836 by succeeding Secretaries of the Treasury. Mostly tables, incl. tariff tables on products, hides, agriculture, food, candles, leather, iron, wax, gunpowder, glassware, metals, books, etc. Great look at government money allocated specifically for many, many named Army forts, outposts & barracks, also frequent outlays for harbors, navigation improvements for many named rivers such as Mississippi, Ohio, Red, Missouri, Choctawhatchie, Cumberland, Cape Fear, Huron, many, many more, also building of many westward roads, turnpikes & canals (incl. various roads from Detroit to Fort Cratiot, Saginaw, Chicago, Matanawook to Mars Hill, Me., Fort Smith to Fort Towson, Pensacola & Mobile Point, repairing road between Pensacola St. Augustine & Tallahassee, etc., the Cumberland Road in Ohio, Illinois & Indiana, relief of officers engaged in the Seminole War, militia claims, surveying the South Seas, rebuilding frigates, money for subsistence of U.S. navy, army, & marines, land claims in Florida, also payment for ships involved in slave trade on African coast & expenses of certain slaves. Especially interesting for very many frequent references to Indian matters including money to satisfy numerous Indian treaties, expenses to relieve friendly Indians, to vaccinate Indians, land for Indians, presents, pay interpretors, translators, & Indian agents, Indian schooling, removal of Indians, funds to suppress Indian aggression & hostilities, claims of Cherokees, effecting Indian treaties w/ Creeks, Ohio Indians, etc. Text on Bank of the U.S., Congressional tariff actions, the national economy, much more. Extremely valuable Americana just for the voluminous Indian material & internal improvements westward.

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