They were reaping the benifits of federal collection. Wherever there was a customs house that area had federal monies coming to it. Almost every state had customs facilities to collect revenue but the North had the most and the largest volumes of imports for custom houses.

Maine had the most custom facilities at 13, Massachusetts had 11, New York had 11, Virginia had 9, Florida had 9, North Carolina had 8, California had 7, New Jersey had 7, Illinois had 6, Conn. had 5, the rest were 1, 2 , 3 and 4s.

In the North those custom facilities that took in over $100,000 yearly between 1855 and 1859 were....

Portland/Falmouth, Maine; Boston/Charleston, MA; New Haven, CT; Osewago, NY; New York, NY; Philidelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Miami/Toledo, OH; Cuyahoga/Cleveland, OH; Chicago, IL; Milwauki, WI; St. Louis, MO; San Francisco, CA.

In the South there were...

Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Savannah, GA; Mobile, AL; New Orleans, LA;

The largest federal import revenues between 1855 and 1858 were at New York at between about $26,000,000 to $42,000,000 the second would be Boston at between $4 and $8 million; third Philidelphia at between $2.2 million and $3.8 million.; the forth would be New Orleans at between $1.7 million and 3.6 Million dollars.

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David Upton