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3629. HAMILTON (Alexander), Treasury management.—[further continued] .

Hamilton's financial system
* * * had two objects: first, as a
puzzle, to exclude popular understanding and
inquiry; secondly, as a machine for the corruption
of the Legislature.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 91. Ford ed., i, 160.
(1818)

See Assumption of State Debts and Bank.