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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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below. He then repaired to the Senatechamber, and there delivered an address toboth houses of Congress. The organizationof the government being now complete.Congress proceeded to arrange the executivedepartment by the creation of the depart-ments of state, the treasury and war. Presi-dent Washington appointed Thomas Jeffer-son, secretary of state, Alexander Hamilton,secretary of the treasury, and General HenryKnox, secretary of war. John Jay was made
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486 THE INAUGURATION OF WASHINGTON. chief jUoLice of the United States,Edmond Randolph, attorney-general. The new government found itself face toface with many difficulties, the principal ofwhich was the payment of the national debt.This debt was in the form of notes of thegovernment, or promises to pay for valuereceived. These notes had been issued bythe States as well as by Congress during therevolution, and had been given in paymentfor services rendered the general and Stategovernments, and for supplies. In Janu-ary, 1790, Alexander Hamilton proposedto pay all these debts in full, and that thegeneral government should assume thewar debts of States. This plan met with considerable oppo-sition at first, but was at length adopted.It was also arranged that the revenue ofthe country should be divided as follows:As the control of commerce had passedinto the hands of Congress the revenuederived from the duties levied upon imported merchandise was to be applied tothe uses of the general go

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