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  2. Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House - Wikipedia

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    The United States Customs Service moved out of the building in 1974, and it remained vacant for over a decade until renovations in the late 1980s. The Custom House was renamed in 1990 to commemorate Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and its first Secretary of the Treasury. The Heye Center opened in 1994.

  3. United States Custom House (New York City) - Wikipedia

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    [6]: 16 In 1907 it moved into a new building, now called the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, built on the site where Government House sat earlier, on the south side of Bowling Green. [ 6 ] : 8 The Customs Service signed a long-term lease with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at Six World Trade Center in 1970, [ 7 ] and moved ...

  4. United States Revenue Cutter Service - Wikipedia

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    The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 175) on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to serve as an armed customs enforcement service. As time passed, the service gradually gained missions either voluntarily or by legislation ...

  5. First ten Revenue Service cutters - Wikipedia

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    The first ten Revenue Service cutters were ten oceangoing cutters built at the behest of the 1st United States Congress in the early 1790s to crack down on smuggling. Since the United States Navy had at the time not yet been formed (it was established in 1798), these ten cutters of the newly formed Revenue-Marine therefore represent the United States Government's first official "armed force ...

  6. Tariff of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    The Act Laying Duties on Imports was communicated by Alexander Hamilton to the United States House of Representatives on April 23, 1790. In order to promote manufacturing in the United States , Hamilton proposed that imported goods be more expensive, which would force Americans to buy more homemade products.

  7. Second Report on Public Credit - Wikipedia

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    In United States history, the Second Report on the Public Credit, [1] also referred to as The Report on a National Bank, [2] was the second of four influential reports on fiscal and economic policy delivered to Congress by the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

  8. CBP's top doctor tried to order fentanyl lollipops for ...

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    The chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection pressured his staff to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take to the UN General Assembly, says a whistleblower report sent to Congress.

  9. Tariff of 1792 - Wikipedia

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    The Tariff of 1792 was the third of Alexander Hamilton's protective tariffs in the United States (first was the Hamilton tariff of 1789, second was the Tariff of 1790). Hamilton had persuaded the United States Congress to raise duties slightly in 1790, and he persuaded them to raise rates again in 1792, although still not to his satisfaction.