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First Report on the Public Credit



The Report on Public Credit was a report that analyzed the financial standing of the United States of America and made recommendations for the retirement of the national debt. Commissioned by the House of Representatives to Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton on September 21, 1789 and presented January 14, 1790, the 140,000 word document first proposed federal assumption of state debt.



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