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TREASURY Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is dis- bursed to defray the expenses of government Webster. That department of government which is charged with the receipt, custody, and dis- bursement (pursuant to appropriations) of the public revenues or funds.

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