Congress of the United States: At the Third Session...An Act in addition to an Act, intituled, "An Act for establishing the Salaries of the Executive Officers of Government, with their Assistants and Clerks." Letterpress handbill. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1791. 1 page, 7 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. Signed in type by Speaker of the House Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Vice President John Adams, and President George Washington. 

A fine period printing of a Congressional Act establishing the annual salary of $200 to the chief clerk of the auditor and $400 to the assistant secretary of the treasury. It also allowed for the clerks in several offices "reasonable and necessary expences [sic] incurred by the removal of Congress from the city of New York, to the city of Philadelphia." 

At the time of publication, the assistant secretary of the treasury was Tench Coxe (1755-1824). He was a political economist and Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress who wrote prolifically under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Revolutionary period. He served as the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Alexander Hamilton during Washington's presidency. 

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