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Definition of Treasury department
1. Noun. The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789.
Terms within: U.s. Mint, United States Mint, Us Mint, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Fincen, Atf, Bureau Of Alcohol Tobacco And Firearms, Financial Management Service, Office Of Intelligence Support, Ois, Comptroller Of The Currency, Bureau Of Customs, Customs Bureau, Customs Service, Uscb, Bureau Of Engraving And Printing, Internal Revenue Service, Irs
Generic synonyms: Executive Department
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasury Department
Literary usage of Treasury department
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by United States Civil Service Commission (1898)
"... basing bis contention on the provisions of section 3148 of the Revised Statutes.
CONTENTION OF THE treasury department ITON тик STATUS OK ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"IG agents or persons claiming to be agents of the treasury department, and of
military officers: and, in respect to what are called military payments, ..."
3. The American Government by Frederick Jennings Haskin (1911)
"The treasury department collects all taxes levied by Congress for the support of
the Federal Government, and expends the money thus collected upon the order ..."
4. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1883)
"treasury department ESTABLISHED—ROYAL OFFICERS—THE DEPARTMENT AS FULLY ...
THE treasury department of New Spain may be said to have been organized early in ..."
5. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... the Portfolio — Appointment of Charles F. Conant as Funding Agent of the
treasury department in London — Redeeming Called Bonds — Sale of Four Per Cent. ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"Pursuant to section 886 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I, Charles
Beardsley, Fourth Auditor of the treasury department, do hereby certify ..."
7. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"AUDITOR FOR THE treasury department. In the reorganization of the accounting
system, mentioned above in describing the office of the comptroller of the ..."
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