Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to The New-York Packet, [1 August 1782]

To New-York Packet

[Albany, August 1, 1782]

THE SUBSCRIBER has received nothing on account of the quota of this state for the present year. Published agreeable to the instructions of the Superintendant of Finance.1

Alexander Hamilton
Receiver of Continental Taxes
for the State of New-York

The New-York Packet, and the American Advertiser, August 22, 1782.

1Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, had instructed the several receivers of continental taxes to make use of newspapers to advertise delinquencies in the payment of taxes (Morris to H, April 15, 1782).

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