The offer of the post was but an ill-considered caprice of Mr.Tyler.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 10: Cents are omitted as confusing figures.] [Footnote 11: The first Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
This was under the Supplementary Treasury Act.] [Footnote 12: Excess of receipts, notwithstanding the purchase of Louisiana and payments on account of principal and interest of the debt.] [Footnote 13: These were the banks of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.

Seven presidents formed the committee.

John A.Stevens of New York was chairman, by request of the Secretary of the Treasury.

The other members were named by him.

The sum advanced to the government was one hundred and fifty millions of dollars in coin.] [Footnote 14: At Portland, $120,000; Salem, $183,600; Boston, $75,300; Providence, $67,800; Richmond, $49,000; Norfolk, $103,000; Charleston, $354,000.] [Footnote 15: Report of Secretary Dallas, September 20, 1816.] [Footnote 16: Act of March 3, 1817.] [Footnote 17: _Democratic Review_, xii.