Banks in the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Annual Report on the Banks in the United States. (House of Representatives. 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 25.) [Constitution of the Banks]

211 pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles. A government report detailing the state of banking in the United States during the American Civil War, a time at which counterfeiting and forgery of currency was so rife that the Secret Service was created to combat it, two years after the publication of this work. Numerous statistical charts throughout.