The United States Independent Treasury System: Its significance and application to Federal Hall- with a note on the customs house period
Platt JD. 1968. The United States Independent Treasury System: Its significance and application to Federal Hall- with a note on the customs house period. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
This study brings together in narrative form, from an extensive range of secondary and printed source materials, data needed for the development of museum exhibits on the New York Sub-Treasury and Customs in the building at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in New York City. It has been made as complete as time had permitted. A complex subject, the Independent Treasury System gauged America’s economic development during its years of operation. The Customs is a subject on quite another level, lacking an extensive literature, although tariff policy has been the subject of much economics and historical writing. The data offered here touches on the essential topics to be considered among those concerning the 1842-1862 period of occupancy.