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Manuscript Collection

PMM 13

Maine Customhouse Records

1778 – 1938

Bulk 1870 – 1918

17 linear feet

Accession No. LB1980.79

Stephen Phillips Memorial Library

Penobscot Marine Museum

11 Church St., Searsport, Maine 04974

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Maine Customhouse Records

United States. Customs Service

Records, 1778-1938 (bulk 1830-1918)

17 linear feet

Federal agency charged with regulating shipping, imports, and exports.

Correspondence; vessel documentation; registries and enrollments; customs reports and

proposals; account books, receipt stubs, and vouchers; and instructions to collectors in multiple

Maine customs districts from the establishment of the US Customs Service to the early

twentieth century. The bulk of the records are from the District of Castine. Bath, Belfast,

Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, and Waldoboro are also significantly represented. This collection

documents the development, business, and administrative functions of the US Customs

Service, as well as providing detailed lists of merchant and fishing vessels registered in these

districts.

In English

Organized in three series: Series I. Castine; Series II. Other Customs Districts; Series III.

Customs Forms and Circulars.

Robert B. Applebee; Gift; 1980; LB1980.79

Finding aid available; folder level control

Subject Headings:

Customs administration

Customhouses

Cod fisheries

Exports

Fishing

Fishing boats

Imports

Merchant mariners

Shipping

Ships

U.S. Customs Service

Local Subject Headings:

Salt trade

Acquisition:

Materials in this collection were collected and donated by Robert B. Applebee.

Restrictions

This collection is open for research. There are no special restrictions.

Condition:

Many of the volumes are in poor condition, with broken spines, fragile bindings, and

flaking covers and pages. Materials are still legible, but require careful handling.

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Related Materials:

More records from the U.S. Customs Service are held by the National Archives and

Records Administration in Record Group 36. Some customs records related to Bath are at the

Maine Maritime Museum in MS 7, the Robert B. Applebee Papers.

Robert B. Applebee made abstracts of much of the information about individual vessels

in this collection and organized it into alphabetical reference books. These are available at the

Penobscot Marine Museum in PMM 9.

Applebee also collected personal material from Peter H. Green, a customs collector in

Bath, and William Bartlett Smith, a collector in Machias. These are, respectively, cataloged as

PMM 103 and PMM 104.

Processing Note:

This finding aid reflects the intellectual arrangement of the collection, organized by

customs district and the functions of the customs service. The collection is housed according to

the physical size of the document. This often results in box, folder and item numbers that are

not sequential: please be specific when requesting materials from this collection.

Historical Note:

The United States Customs Service was formed in 1789 to collect duties on goods

imported into the United States. Over time, the scope of the agency expanded to include

enforcing laws related to imports and exports; appraising, gauging, and weighing cargoes;

registering and licensing ships and other vessels; collecting fees, taxes, and penalties assessed

against vessels; and collecting statistics on imports and exports. The Customs Service also

handled activities since transferred to other government agencies. These included handling

finances and paperwork for the U.S. Revenue Marine (removed from direct supervision in 1871,

later transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard); collecting marine hospital dues and enforcing

quarantine laws (later transferred to the U.S. Public Health Service); collecting crew and

passenger lists for vessels bound on international voyages; acting as the local U.S. Shipping

Commissioner where no one had been formally appointed; and, until 1852, administering

lighthouses. Particularly relevant in Maine, Customs Collectors also paid cod fishing bounties

and oversaw bonded warehouses for salt imported for the fishing industry.

The Customs Service was administered by Collectors of Customs, who were appointed,

and deputy collectors. Collectors were compensated by fixed fees on specific services and a

percentage of money remitted to the U.S. Treasury. These were retained directly by customs

collectors until 1849, when the U.S. Treasury began reimbursing collectors based on the

transactions they reported. Collectors were paid on a salary basis for the first time in 1913.

There were fourteen customs districts in the state of Maine: York, Kennebunk, Saco,

Portland, Bath, Wiscasset, Waldoboro (which included Rockland and Thomaston), Belfast

(which included Camden and Searsport), Bangor, Castine (named the Penobscot District until

1866), Frenchman’s Bay, Machias, Passamaquoddy, and Aroostook. Kittery, Maine, was

serviced by the customs district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These districts were

consolidated in 1913 as part of a larger reorganization of the Customs service, with the new

district headquartered in Portland.

Scope and Content:

This collection contains accounts, correspondence, vessel registration and enrollment

forms, bonds for warehousing salt, marine hospital dues, and other records from U.S. Customs

Districts. All but a few papers are from districts in Maine; the bulk are from the district of

Castine. While the collection is organized by customs district, records generally address the

topics listed below:

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Vessel Documentation: Certificates of vessel registrations and enrollments, coasting and

fishing licenses, and records of services performed provide a detailed record of most vessels

active in the Castine district, from large ships to small fishing- and motorboats. Records often

include notes of the vessel’s size, date and place built, captain, and owners. Similar records are

also available for the districts of Bath, Belfast, and Waldoboro, though material from these

districts is much less complete. Abstracts of vessels documented in the Frenchman’s Bay

district in the early twentieth century are also part of this collection. Abstracts and accounts for

fees and duties collected provide a less detailed, but broader, record of the vessels and trade

conducted in the Castine district.

Trade: The bulk of the material related to imports and exports in this collection consists

of detailed records about the importation of salt for the fishing industry to Castine during the

early twentieth century. There are also abstracts of all imports and exports from the Castine

(Penobscot) district in the 1820s and 1830s, and from Waldoboro district in the 1880s and

1890s. Other records include a folder of bonds for cargoes signed during the various embargos

leading up to the War of 1812, and a detailed list of a cargo of high-end textiles and domestic

goods landed from the wreck of the ship EAGLE, bound from Liverpool to New York, in 1835.

Fishing: Records of Maine’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fishing fleets can be

found in several types of records in this collection. Fishing vessels, both large and small, are

well documented in lists of licenses granted for fishing, which include details about the vessel as

well as names of the owners and masters. The vessels and individuals involved in early

twentieth century fishing industry in Castine and Bucksport are also extensively documented in

records of salt imported for use in the fisheries. Thomas M. Nicholson’s Bucksport-based fleet

of Grand Banks cod fishing schooners is particularly well represented in these. There are also

scattered records of codfish bounties paid to fisherman in the early nineteenth century from

multiple Maine customs districts.

Mariners: Though captains and shipowners make up the majority of mariners named in

this collection, individual sailors are represented in crew lists collected for foreign voyages and

in records related to marine hospitals. There are scattered records for marine hospitals from the

Bangor, Bath, Belfast, and Castine districts, including, in some cases, the names of individual

mariners and the reasons and length of their stays. Crew lists are limited to the Castine district;

many of the surviving copies are for fishing trips to the Grand Banks.

Agency History: A significant portion of the records in this collection documents the

internal function of the U.S. Customs Service. The bulk of these records consist of financial

accounts from the Castine district, which document transactions with importers, vessel owners,

and the U.S. Treasury, and correspondence addressed to the Castine customhouse from the

1890s through the end of World War I. The latter includes both directives from the Treasury

Department and from individual mariners in the district. Circular letters and instructions from the

Treasury, received in Bath, comprise some of the earliest records in the collection; Series III

contains a more comprehensive collection of these general letters and regulations. Records

from Bath and Machias include detailed correspondence from the mid-nineteenth century about

issues like appointing new customs officers and constructing a customhouse in Bath, while the

Progressive-era reforms of the agency are best documented in Castine.

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Series Overview

Series I. Castine

Vessel Documentation

Imports, exports, and duties

Fisheries

Mariners and Marine Hospitals

Accounts

Correspondence

Staff and Building Operations

Series II. Other Customs Districts

Bath

Belfast

Frenchman’s Bay

Machias

Portland

Waldoboro

Wiscasset

York

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Districts outside of Maine

Series III. Circular Letters and Blank Forms

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Box and Folder List:

Series I. Castine

Vessel Documentation

All Vessels

Box Folder

2 1 List of registered sailing vessels documented in the district of Penobscot, 1796-

1803 (compiled after 1881)

Receipts, Services Performed for Vessels (admeasurement, enrollment,

licensing, certificates, and endorsements) at the following ports:

2 Brooklin, 1907-1910

3 Bucksport, March 1906 – May 1907

4 Bucksport, May 1907 – March 1909

5 Bucksport, March – December 1909

6 Bucksport, March 1910 – October 1911

7 Bucksport, October 1911 – May 1913

8 Castine, September 1908 – March 1909

9 Castine, March – October 1909

10 Castine, October 1909 – March 1910

11 Castine, April – August 1910

12 Castine, July 1910 – January 1911

13 Castine, January – July 1911

14 Castine, July – December 1911

15 Castine, December 1911 – May 1912

16 Castine, May – November 1912

17 Castine, November 1912 – March 1913

OS1 15 Quarterly statements of services performed for vessels, 1869-1871 and 1907-

1912

19 Quarterly statements of vessels built, Castine district, 1870 and 1881

OS4 1a Annual Alphabetical List, sail-powered fishing vessels, 1899

1b Annual Alphabetical List, sail-powered freight vessels, 1899

1c Annual Alphabetical List, steam-powered vessels, 1899

Vessels Over 20 Tons

MS 71 Abstract of Registers, Enrollments, and Licenses Issued and Surrendered, 1889-

1898

MS 75 Abstract of Registers, Enrollments, and Licenses Issued and Surrendered, 1897-

1910

MS 111 Abstract of Registers, Enrollments, and Licenses Issued and

Surrendered, Brooklin, 1901- 1902 (includes vessels under 20

tons)

MS 99 Quarterly Abstracts of registration, enrollments, and licenses, 1872-1889

MS 70 Abstract of permanent and temporary registers issued and surrendered, 1871-

1888

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MS 96 Bonds for vessel registry, Bucksport, 1875-1890

MS 97 Bonds for vessel registry, Castine, 1870-1875

MS 100 Bonds and oaths for vessel registry, Castine, 1875-1897

MS 271 Abstract of Permanent Enrollments Issued and Surrendered, District of

Penobscot, 1817-1824

MS 77 Abstract of Permanent and Temporary Enrollments Issued and Surrendered,

1870-1889

Box 1 1 List of enrolled vessels, quarter ending March 31, 1900 (loose)

MS 82 Bonds and oaths for vessel enrollments, Bucksport, 1875-1882

MS 87 Bonds and oaths for vessel enrollments, Bucksport, 1882-1890

MS 86 Bonds and oaths for vessel enrollments, Bucksport, 1890-1897

MS 81 Bonds and oaths for vessel enrollments, Castine, 1875-1882

MS 80 Bonds and oaths for vessel enrollments, Castine, 1882-1892

MS 91 Oaths for vessel enrollments, 1897-1908

MS 92 Oaths for vessel enrollments, 1909-1918

MS 106 Bonds and oaths for registry and enrollments, Castine, 1874-1882 (bound

miscellaneous documents)

MS 232 Coasting licenses issued, District of Penobscot, 1793-1795

MS 231 Coasting and fishing licenses issued, District of Penobscot, March – October

1852

MS 85 Coasting licenses issued at Castine, 1868-1870

MS 79 Abstract of coasting licenses issued and surrendered, 1870-1889

MS 89 Master’s oaths for coasting licenses issued at Bucksport, 1898-1909

MS 95 Master’s oaths for coasting licenses issued at Bucksport, 1909-1913

MS 90 Master’s oaths for coasting licenses issued at Castine, 1897-1908

MS 78 Abstract of fishing licenses issued and surrendered, 1870-1879

MS 107 Record of Endorsements issued 1875-1914

MS 296 Bills of sale for enrolled vessels, 1853-1855

MS 72 Bills of sale for enrolled vessels, 1860-1862

MS 73 Bills of Sale for Enrolled Vessels, 1863-1865

MS 74 Bills of Sale for Enrolled Vessels, 1869-1871

MS 380 Abstracts of vessel sales, 1850-1859

MS 399 Abstracts of vessel sales, 1859-1882

MS 195 Wreck Reports, vessels registered in Castine, 1873-1884

MS 249 Wreck Reports, vessels registered in Castine, 1884-1900

Vessels Under 20 Tons

MS 111 Abstract of Registers, Enrollments, and Licenses Issued and Surrendered,

Brooklin, 1901-1902 (includes vessels over 20 tons)

MS 294 Abstract of fishing and coasting licenses issued and surrendered, vessels under

20 tons, 1870-1889

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MS 84 Oaths for the renewal of licenses, coasting and fishing, Brooklin, 1907-1910

MS 88 Oaths for the renewal of licenses, coasting and fishing, Bucksport, 1897-1917

MS 101 Oaths for licenses, coasting and fishing, Castine, 1895-1897

MS 261 Oaths for licenses, coasting and fishing, Castine, 1908-1913

MS 83 Oaths for the renewal of licenses, coasting and fishing, Castine, 1914-1915

MS 76 Bills of Sale for Vessels Under 20 Tons, 1869-1880

MS 248 Bills of Sale for Enrolled Vessels under 20 Tons, 1905-1910

Box 1 2 Motorboat licenses, correspondence, 1918

3 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, Brooksville, 1910-1911

4 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, Castine, 1910-1912

5 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, Deer Isle, 1910-1911

6 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, Swan’s Island, 1910-1912, folder 1

7 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, Swan’s Island, 1910-1912, folder 2

8 Motorboat licenses, fines and penalties, out-of-state owners, 1910

9 Motorboat licenses, deposit of fines collected, 1916

10 Assessment of motor boats, Steamboat Inspection Service, Bangor, 1907

Yachts

MS 273 Bonds for Yacht Licenses, 1891-1911

Imports, exports, and duties:

Imports and Exports

Box 3 1 Embargo bonds, 1808-1814

OS1 9 Abstract of exports from the district of Penobscot, 1820

OS2 2 Abstracts of imports and exports from the district of Penobscot, 1834

OS1 8 Abstracts of duties on imported merchandise, 1837-1838

MS 233 Account of duties on cargo of textiles and dry goods, landed from the wreck of

the ship Eagle, bound from Liverpool to New York, 1835

Box 3 2 Receipts for Collections, Entries and Clearances, Bucksport, 1910-1912

3 Entries, clearances, and manifests, schooner ELIZABETH N., 1908-1915

4 Entries, clearances, and manifests, fishing schooner HIRAM LOWELL, 1913-

1915

5 Entries, clearances, and manifests, fishing schooner HIRAM LOWELL, 1916-

1917

6 Entries, clearances, and manifests, fishing schooner REGINA, 1913-1916

7 Entries, clearances, and manifests, miscellaneous, 1913-1917

8 Manifests, coastal, 1911-1918

OS1 12 Manifests, 1878-1911 (oversize)

Box 3 14 Shipments and arrivals of commodities at Bucksport and the Bagaduce River,

1902-1918

Bonded Warehouse

MS 295 Ledger, entries and withdrawals from bonded warehouse, 1868-1910

MS 268 Ledger, entries and withdrawals from the bonded warehouse, 1897-1912

Box 3 9 Withdrawals of salt from bonded warehouse, loose, 1908-1912

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MS 278 Bonds for the entry of salt to a bonded warehouse, Bucksport, 1908-1913

MS 255 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for use on shore, 1882-1898

MS 253 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish and for fishing, 1889-1900

MS 250 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish, Castine, 1908-1910

MS 252 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish, Castine, 1911-1913

MS 251 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish, Bucksport, 1905-1909

MS 94 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish, Bucksport, 1909-1912

MS 93 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for curing fish, Bucksport, 1913

MS 254 Bonds for the withdrawal of salt for fishing, Bucksport, 1907-1912

MS 287 Transportation bonds, removal of salt, Castine, 1887-1893

MS 280 Transportation bonds, removal of salt, Bucksport, 1908-1913

MS 279 Copies of transportation bonds from Bucksport, 1913

MS 396 Record of export bonds, 1907-1913

OS1 3 General account of bonds for duties on merchandise warehoused, 1906-1911

Box 3 10 Statements of bonds, 1908 and 1912

Box 3 11 Abstracts of duties on warehoused salt, 1908-1911

12 Abstracts of duties on warehoused salt, 1912

13 Correspondence and statistics on salt received, 1906-1909

OS2 3 Summary of uses for imported salt, 1906-1907

Fisheries

MS 228 Statement of drafts rendered to the comptroller of the Treasury for fishing

vessels, District of Penobscot, 1830-1839

MS 229 Abstract of Allowances to Vessels in the Cod Fishery, District of Penobscot 1830-

1840

OS2 1 Abstract of fishing bounties paid, 1

quarter, 1835

Box 6 10 Correspondence and notes re: fishing bounties, 1839-1865

Seamen and Marine Hospitals

MS 284 Abstract of Hospital Money received, Castine, 1837-1849

Box 6 9 Hospital relief certificates, 1825-1895

MS 270 Mutual Release forms, crew and captains, U.S. Shipping Commissioner, 1902

MS 272 Bonds for the filing of crew lists, 1887-1898

OS1 5 Crew lists, fishing vessels, 1913-1915

OS2 6 Crew lists, 1914-1917

Subseries Id: Customhouse Accounting

Total Accounts

MS 263 Accounts Current, United States Treasury with the Collector at Penobscot,

District of Penobscot, 1810-1826

MS 275 Monthly Account of Money Received and Paid to the U.S. Treasury, 1833-1834

MS 274 Monthly Account of Money Received and Paid to the U.S. Treasury, 1835-1836

MS 286 Accounts Current, United States Treasury with Collector of Customs, Castine,

1897-1907; Includes accounts for Rock Island, 1890-1891

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MS 291 Record of Consolidated Accounts Current, United States Treasury with Collector

of Customs, Castine, 1908-1911

MS 288 Records of Accounts Current under Statutory Bond, 1907-1911

OS1 1 Records of Accounts Current under official bond, loose, January – June 1909

2 July – December 1909

MS 285 Record of Consolidated Accounts Current of Receipts and Disbursements under

Statutory Bond, 1911-1913

MS 293 Daily Record of Balance on Accounts, 1910-1013

MS 247 Return of Moneys Received and Paid, monthly, 1897-1907

OS2 5 Abstracts of accounts, miscellaneous, 1905-1912

Received

MS 206 Receipts for Duties, Customs Fines, Customs Fees, and Other

Miscellaneous Customs Collections, 1906

MS 265 Daily Record of Navigation Fees, 1908-1913

MS 266 Record of Collections on Account with the United States, Castine, 1906-1908

MS 315 Summary of duties received, Penobscot District, 1829, 1840-1841

MS 292 Daily Register of Receipts from All Sources, 1873-1890

MS 109 Daily Record of Money Received from All Sources, 1897-1909

MS 264 Daily Record of Money Received from All Sources, 1910-1913

MS 245 Register of Collections, money received from all sources, 1914-1919

Box 6 8 Record of Treasury Warrants Received, 1886-1908

Paid

MS 260 Record of checks issued from Castine, 1890-1900

MS 216 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #313351-313450, 1901-1902

MS 217 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #337051-337150, 1902-1903

MS 215 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #336251-336450, 1903-1905

MS 236 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #356651-356850, 1905-1907

MS 104 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #11902-119250, 1908-1909

MS 283 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #473651-473850, 1909-1911

MS 218 Disbursing officer’s check stubs, #546551-546650, 1911-1913

MS 95a Monthly record customs expenses, 1901-1906

MS 127 Daybook (unofficial), H.B. Parker, Cashier, in account with C.A. Spofford,

Collector, 1886-1897

Reports on Transactions

Box 6 5 Reports on Transactions, 1907

6 Reports on Transactions, 1910

7 Reports on Transactions, 1911

MS 110 Record of Official Services Chargeable to the United States, 1905-1911

MS 262 Record of Official Services Chargeable to the United States, 1911-1913

MS 269 Record of Official Services Performed, Castine and Bucksport, 1898-1913

Box 6 1 Certificates of Services Performed, Bucksport, 1910-1913

2 Certificates of Services Performed, Castine, April 1907 – January 1909

3 Certificates of Services Performed, Castine, March 1909 – June 1910

4 Treasury Department notes on receipt of Certificates of Services, 1897-1898

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Correspondence

MS 185 Letter copy book, outgoing correspondence, 1895-1909

MS 190 Letter copy book, outgoing correspondence, 1909-1911

MS 191 Letter copy book, outgoing correspondence, 1911-1917

Box 4 1 Incoming correspondence, Treasury Department, 1829-1859

2 Incoming correspondence, Treasury Department, 1860-1879

3 Incoming correspondence, Treasury Department, 1880-1900

4 Incoming correspondence, general, 1829-1912

4b Incoming correspondence, Revenue Marine, 1865-1866

MS 189 Letter book, incoming correspondence, 1894-1896

MS 186 Letter book, incoming correspondence, 1898-1900

MS 175 Letter book, incoming correspondence, 1900-1903

Box 4 5 Loose letters removed from MS 175, 1887-1904

6 Loose letters removed from MS 175, 1905-1909

MS 180 Letter book, incoming correspondence, 1903-1906

MS 198 Letter book, incoming correspondence, Bureau of Navigation, 1904-1907

MS 199 Letter book, incoming correspondence, Bureau of Navigation, 1907-1909

Box 4 9 Loose letters and circulars removed from MS 199, 1905-1919

MS 176 Letter book, incoming correspondence, 1908-1910

MS 177 Letter book, incoming correspondence, Department of Commerce and Labor,

January – August 1910

MS 178 Letter book, incoming correspondence, general, 1910-1911

MS 187 Letter book, incoming correspondence, general, 1911-1912

MS 188 Letter book, incoming correspondence, general, 1913-1914

MS 183 Letter book, incoming correspondence, general, 1915-1916

MS 184 Letter book, incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1917-1918

MS 179 Letter book, incoming correspondence and reports, C.V.R. (Corporation

Valuation Report) Bureau, 1916-1918

Box 4 7 Loose letters removed from MS 179, 1917-1918

MS 181 Letter book, incoming correspondence, War Trade Board, 1918

MS 182 Letter book, correspondence and applications, Special License to Navigate in the

Harbor and Waters of a Port of Entry, 1918

Box 4 8 Loose letters removed from MS 182, 1918-1919

Staff and Building Operations

Box Folder

5 1 Oath of Office, Seth L. Milliken, Collector of Customs, 1877

2 Correspondence re: Civil Service Exams, 1989-1905

3 Civil Service Exams: Alvah B. Ames, 1897

George L. Beck, 1899

4 Benjamin H. Cushman, 1897

Oscar F. Fellows, 1900

5 John P. Leach, 1897 and 1898

6 Stephen Littlefield, 1898

Fred A. Perkins, 1897

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7 John Rea, 1899

John P. Shepherd, 1899

8 Register of employees, 1903, 1907

MS 246 Official Emoluments, paid to Collector George M. Warren, 1900-1903

Box 5 9 Customhouse maintenance and improvements, 1895-1899

10 1900-1907

11 1908-1910

12 1911

13 1912

OS1 17 Estimates for customhouse supplies and services, 1898-1902

18 Estimates for customhouse supplies and services, 1903-1907

OS2 3 Oversize: vouchers and receipts for customhouse maintenance

Series II: Other Customs Districts

Bangor

Box 7 22 Certificate for the transportation of William L. Snowman, seaman, for illness,

1898

Bath

Box 7 1 Customhouse correspondence, 1794-1805

2 Customhouse correspondence, 1822-1846

3 Customhouse correspondence, 1852-1859

4 Customhouse correspondence, 1860-1902

5 Staff and appointments, 1841

6 Staff and appointments, 1842-1872

7 Receipts and shipping papers, 1855-1878

8 Fishing bounties, 1859-1860

Revenue Marine, 1873-1874

9 Marine Hospital, 1841-1864

MS 204 WPA abstracts, vessels enrolled in Bath, 1789-1827

MS 205 WPA abstracts, vessels enrolled in Bath, 1828-1844

Belfast

MS 98 Bonds for vessel enrollments, 1842-1875

MS 306 Coastwise Arrivals, 1872-1884

MS 308 Permits to Enter Marine Hospital at Belfast, individual sailors, 1875-1895

MS 307 Abstract of all business conducted in Belfast, 1858-1861

MS 398 Records of Accounts Current with the U.S. Treasury, 1874-1888

MS 397 Records of Accounts Current with the U.S. Treasury, 1889-1906

Box 7 10 Correspondence, general, 1862-1864

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Frenchman’s Bay

Box 7 11 Correspondence, general, 1855-1899

OS4 2a Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1905-1906

2b Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1907

2c Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1908

2d Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1909

2e Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1910

2f Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1911

2g Vessels documented in Southwest Harbor, 1912

3a Vessels documented in Mount Desert Ferry, 1905-1907

3b Vessels documented in Mount Desert Ferry, 1908-1910

3c Vessels documented in Mount Desert Ferry, 1911-1913

Machias

Box 7 12 Correspondence, general, 1830-1849

13 Correspondence, general, 1850-1859

14 Correspondence, general, 1860-1880

15 Fishing bounties, 1778, 1844

16 Post office, 1857

Portland

7 17 Correspondence, general, 1805-1889

Waldoboro

MS 379 Bills of Sale for Enrolled Vessels, 1850-1851

MS 256 Accounts of money received and paid at the Deputy Collector’s office,

Thomaston, 1841-1844 (first part re-used as a scrapbook)

MS 309 Imports of Goods Free and Dutiable; record of customs duties collected, 1888-

1906

Box 7 18 Correspondence, 1871-1874

Wiscasset

7 19 Correspondence, 1875-1884

York

7 20 Correspondence, 1913

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

7 21 Correspondence, 1833-1883

Outside of Maine

7 23 Boston, Edgartown, New York, Cuba

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Series III. Printed Forms and Circulars

Box 6 11 Department of Commerce, “Circulars of the Department of Commerce,” July 1,

1917

12 Department of Commerce, “Schedule B: Classification of Commodities,” June 9,

1915

13 Treasury Department, “Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the

State of the Finances,” 1915

13 Treasury Department, “Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the

State of the Finances,” 1917

MS 242 U.S. Customs Service, Circular letters from the Treasury Department (bound),

1793-1837

MS 113 U.S. Customs Service, Index to Laws Relating to the Treasury Department

(Washington: GPO, 1876)

14 U.S. Customs Service, Circular: H.R. 250, “A Bill Further to establish the

compensation of the officers imployed in the collection so duties on

imports and tonnage,” February 12, 1821

15 U.S. Customs Service, Circular: Wireless Installation on Ocean Steamers, 1910-

1912

16 U.S. Customs Service, miscellaneous circulars, 1890-1957

MS 234 U.S. Customs Service, Bonds on Withdrawal of Materials for Construction or

Repair of Vessels (blank)

Box 6 17 U.S. Customs Service, Certificates for the Payment of Tonnage Duties (blank),

190-

Box 6 11 Steamboat Inspection Service, “Laws Governing the Steamboat Inspection

Service,” April 4, 1915

18 Steamboat Inspection Service, “General Rules and Regulations,” Lakes other

than the Great Lakes, Bays, and Sounds, May 13, 1916