HAMILTON, Alexander. Printed document signed ("A. Hamilton"), as Treasury Secretary, Treasury Department, 25 October 1792. 1 page, 4to (7 x 9 in.), matted and framed. A CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS, informing them that "I have concluded to commit the immediate superintendance of the Collection of the duties of impost and tonnage to the Comptroller of the Treasury. You will therefore henceforth correspond with that officer, relatively to all matters arising out of the laws, which respect the laying and collecting of those duties, and you will consider his communications...as of the same force and validity, which they would have, if coming from me..." By this date, several years after its inception, Hamilton perceived that the customs system was functioning smoothly enough that he was able to delegate some of daily minutiae of special or contested cases to the Comptroller.