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单词 sub-treasury office
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sub-treasury office
2. U.S. A branch of the Treasury established in certain cities for the receipt and safe keeping of public funds (also more fully sub-treasury office). Also: a building (formerly) housing one of these branches. Now historical.The system of sub-treasuries was first made official with the passing of the Independent Treasury Act in 1840, but did not take effect until this act was passed in revised form in 1846. The last sub-treasuries were closed in 1921.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money > in U.S.
Treasury Department1784
sub-treasury1833
society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money > building
chamber1411
common chamber1579
treasury1706
sub-treasury1833
1833 W. M. Gouge Short Hist. Paper Money & Banking xxvi. 111 With a sub-treasury office in each State, the safe-keeping and disbursing of the public funds could be effected without any difficulty.
1837 W. M. Gouge Inq. Expediency dispensing with Bank Agency & Bank Paper ii. 22 The amount of money in a Sub-Treasury might be, at any moment, readily ascertained, if only an orderly mode of keeping the specie should be adopted.
1839 N. Hawthorne in New Eng. Farmer 9 Jan. 209/3 With their interminable brawls about Banks and the Sub Treasury, Abolition, [etc.].
1853 Bankers' Mag. Sept. 268 There are bank vaults in Wall-street as secure as any sub-treasuries in existence.
1903 W. C. Mitchell Hist. Greenbacks i. 26 He..insisted that the loan be paid in specie into the vaults of the sub-treasury.
1931 R. F. Nichols Franklin Pierce xxxvii. 286 Dix was still in the subtreasury at New York awaiting the President's pleasure.
1989 M. Wilkins Hist. Foreign Investm. in U.S. to 1914 v. 185 Interest on at least $221 million was paid at the subtreasury in New York.
2010 C. Buchanan Gold under Ice xi. 268 He walked down Wall Street until he stood across from the Sub-Treasury.
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