1Alexander Hamilton and John Armstrong, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 23 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Do me the favor to learn from the President, & inform me by the bearer, whether mister Lee’s resignation was purely voluntary on his part, or was occasioned by any circumstance dissatisfactory to the President. The reason to the enquiry is that I may regulate my expressions to him accordingly. I presume no such circumstance has occured; but for greater caution I ask. Yrs &c. LB , DLC:GW . For...
2Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 25 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The proper fund for the payment of the enclosed is the 10,000 Dollars for defraying the contingent Expences of the Government. Will you add a few words directing it to be paid out of that fund. Yours LB , DLC:GW . This enclosure, which has not been found, was from Richard Harrison, auditor of the U.S. Treasury, and concerned the reimbursement of James Seagrove for the expenses he had incurred...
3To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President, and has the honor to enclose the statement respecting the French Debt. He hopes to be able to wait upon the President on Monday, when he will give a further explanation. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton submitted this statement in response to a request from the French minister to the United States, Jean-Baptiste Ternant, for an...
4To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President, and has the honor to transmit a communication this morning received from Colo. Smith: another from Mister Ternant; concerning both of which he will wait upon the President tomorrow. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from William Stephens Smith to Hamilton of 28 Feb. 1793 has not been identified. According to GW’s executive...
5To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President of the U. States a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 6th instant —respecting a contract provisionally entered into with Moses M. Hayes for a further supply of Oil for the Light Houses. It is respectfully conceived that the arrangement is in every view eligible. LB , DLC:GW ....
6To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully makes the following Report to the President of the United States. The Act, entitled “an Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three,” empowers the President to borrow, for the purposes therein specified, any sum or sums, not exceeding in the whole Eight hundred thousand Dollars, at a...
7To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & encloses for his consideration a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue on the subject of a Keeper of the Lt House for Cape Henlopen. LB , DLC:GW . The letter from Tench Coxe to Hamilton has not been identified. According to GW’s executive journal, Coxe’s letter reported that Lemuel Cornick, the lighthouse keeper at...
8To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 20 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter from Wm Bingham Esqr. of the 26th of febry last, together with the papers which it enclosed. It would seem that the United States in Congress assembled have already put the affair in a situation to make the consequences of the Suit a public concern; in which case it would appear adviseable that measures should be taken for a regular defence on behalf of the...
9Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 26 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose to you a small account against the United States, for a Seal for the use of the District Court of the State of Vermont. As this article forms a charge against the Fund appropriated for the contingent charges of Government, I will thank you to obtain the President’s permission for paying it out of the said fund. I am, etc: LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure has not been...
10To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 25 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the U. States, two communications from the Comissioner of the Revenue; one enclosing a Contract entered into by the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse with Matthew Van Dusen, for a mooring chain for one of the floating beacons in the Delaware bay. the other transmitting an offer of Samuel Wheeler concerning two...
11To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President of the United States, a communication from the commissioner of the Revenue, relating to a Contract for the building of a Beacon-boat for the use of the River and Bay of Delaware. He can add nothing to what is suggested by the Commissioner; in whose view of the subject he concurs. LB , DLC:GW . Tench...
12To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
By an Act entitled “an Act providing for the payment of the first installment, due on a Loan made of the Bank of the U. States” —the President of the United States is authorised & empowered to apply two hundred thousand Dollars of the money which may have been borrowed, in pursuance of the 4th section of the Act entitled, “an Act making provision for the reduction of the public debt,” in...
13To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully communicates to The President of the United States a letter of the 28th of April received yesterday from the Commissioner of the Revenue. In the early part of the ensuing week he will have the honor of waiting upon the President to submit his ideas on the several points raised, & take the President’s orders thereupon. LB , DLC:GW . The letter from...
14To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
As the Law appropriating Ten thousand Dollars for the purpose of defraying the contingent charges of Government (tho’ in that respect not very precise in it’s terms) seems to contemplate the rendering an account from time to time of the disbursement of that sum; I have the honor to enclose three copies of a statement to the end of the year 1792, in order that if it be judged expedient, one may...
15To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 22 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to The President of the U. States a Communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue, of the 18th instant; concerning certain proposals for the maintenance and repairs of Buoys moored at & near the entrance of Charlestown Bay in South Carolina. The most favourable of the two offers, that of William Beedom, appears to the Secretary high; yet...
16Memorandum from Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
State of facts as supposed. Mr Jenet Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of France arrives at charlsetown. There he causes two privateers to be fitted out, to which he issues Commissions, to cruise against the enemies of France. There also, the Privateers are manned and partly with citizens of the United States, who are enlisted or engaged for the purpose, without the privity or...
17To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate, for the perusal of the President, a copy of his second Letter to the H: of Representatives; which he will be obliged, if not inconvenient, to the President, to have returned on Monday morning, to be then sent to the Senate. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton is referring to his “Report Relative to the Loans Negotiated under the Acts of the Fourth...
18To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. The enclosed Letter just received from the Collector of Charleston contains information & raises a question, which are proper for the eye of the President. LB , DLC:GW . Isaac Holmes’s letter to Hamilton of 16 April has not been identified. GW’s executive journal states that Hamilton delivered Holmes’s letter to the...
19To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to The President of the United States the enclosed communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue. From the nature of the circumstances represented it appears to the Secretary advisable to embrace the offer which is made by Joseph Anthony & son. LB , DLC:GW . On 26 Mar., Hamilton apparently presented this letter to GW along with the...
20To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 5 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Ship John Buckeley is just arrived here from Lisbon, which place she left on the 23d of Februay. The Messrs Walls a respectable Mercantile House here have received a letter from Mr John Buckeley a respectable Merchant of Lisbon, after whom the Ship is named, of which the following is an extract. “By letters from France by this day’s Post, we find, that an Embargo took place there the 2d...
21To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith to the President of the United States three provisional Contracts made by the Collector of Washington in North Carolina, for the stakage of the shoals, sounds &c. within that State, north of the District of Wilmington, accompanied with a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue relative to the subject. The Secretary, from...
22To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to lay before the President sundry papers relating to Ephraim Kirby, which is done merely on the score of propriety, as it is not perceived that any special provision in the case, can be consistently made. LB , DLC:GW . Ephraim Kirby (1757–1804) of Litchfield, Conn., was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. A lawyer, judge, and legal scholar, Kirby...
23To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose for the information of the President a Letter of the 26th of Feby from our Bankers at Amsterdam which came to hand yesterday. LB , DLC:GW . In a letter to Hamilton of 26 Feb. 1793, the Dutch banking firm of Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard declined issuing a new loan to the United States, due to the recent French invasion of the...
24To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The papers of to day, which I take it for granted are forwarded to you will inform you of a confirmation of the War between France England & Holland & of such other leading particulars, as are contained in the English Papers brought by the Packet. The object of this Letter is merely to apprize you—that the whole current of Commercial Intelligence, which comes down to the 11th of Februay,...
25To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 20 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a communication of the 15th inst: From the Collector & Naval officer of Baltimore, concerning the conduct of the third Mate of the Revenue Cutter, Active. LB , DLC:GW . The letter from Otho H. Williams and Robert Purviance, who were, respectively, the collector of customs and the naval...
26To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. It has appeared to him that a circular letter of the enclosed form to the several Collectors would be a measure of utility. If not disapproved by the President it will be forwarded. The enclosed paper is sent lest the President should not have received it otherwise. It contains intelligence critically important, tho’...
27To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 22 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to The President of the U: States a communication of the 18 of April, from the Commissioner of the Revenue; & respectfully submits it as his opinion—that the public service will be promoted by the acceptance of the resignation offered, and the appointment of the person recommended as a substitute. With regard to what concerns the...
28To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & sends for his information & direction two letters, one from the Collector of Oxford, the other from mister Murray member from Maryland. The Secretary, if not directed otherwise, will by the post of tomorrow, desire the Collector to detain the prize until further order; lest not receiving early instruction he may surrender...
29To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a communication of the 9th instant from the Commissioner of the Revenue, this morning received, transmitting a Contract with Abeshai Woodward as Superintendant of the workmen to be employed in completing the Lighthouse at Bald-Head. From what is said by the Commissioner of the Revenue, & information through other channels, I am of opinion, that a person in this...
30To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 2 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
A conformity of opinion, and upon the same grounds, enables us to submit to you a joint Answer to the third of the Questions, which you were pleased to propose on the 19th of April to the Heads of Departments and the Attorney General. We have concluded that this mode would be more agreeable to you than a repetition of the same ideas and arguments in seperate answers. With perfect respect & the...