Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan Officers, 17 May 1790

Treasury Department Circular
to the Continental Loan Officers

Treasury Department
May 17th 1790

Sir

There are in the possessions of the late Loan Officers of the United States,1 several specie of public paper the holding of which must be inconvenient to them, while they ought, in propriety to be at the Seat of Government.

I therefore request that on the receipt of this letter you will be pleased to forward to me the Indents, blank Loan Office Certificates, bills of Credit, known by the name of the New Emissions, and all other public paper which may be in your hands.

I am Sir with respect Your Obedient Servant

A Hamilton
Secy of the Treasury2

Thomas Smith Esqr
Pennsylvania

LS, sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, December 4–5, 1944, Lot 177.

1. See “Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan Officers,” October 12, 1789.

2. Text taken from facsimile in American Art Association catalogue of earlier sale on March 12, 1920, Lot 380.

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Title: Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan Officers, 17 May 1790
Authors: Treasury Department
Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Continental Loan Officers
Date: 17 May 1790

Reference

Cite as: “Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan Officers, 17 May 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0293. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 418–419.]