From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Banning, 21 June 1793

To Jeremiah Banning

Treasury Department June 21st 1793

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 6th instant,1 I refer you to mine of the 30th of may.2

I should earlier have sent you a direction, in the particular case; but that I had understood that proceedings at law had been commenced, which had removed the Eunice3 from your custody to that of the Court.

If still in your custody she is to be surrendered to the Captor.

with consideration I am Sir Your obedt servt

Alexander Hamilton

Jere Banning Esqr
Collector
Oxford Maryland

Copy, Columbia University Libraries.

1. Letter not found.

2. “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” May 30, 1793.

3. For information on the Eunice, see William Vans Murray to H, May 8, 1793.

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Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Banning, 21 June 1793
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Banning, Jeremiah
Date: 21 June 1793

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Banning, 21 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-15-02-0010. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 15, June 1793 – January 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 11.]

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