1To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave, with diffidence, to offer myself as a candidate for an appointment under the government of the United States. If I may be allowed to judge of my own qualifications, they are most suitable to some business in the Finance or Treasury Department. The gentlemen who represent the State of Connecticut, in the Senate and House of Representatives, are best acquainted with the degree of...
2To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Colo. Hamilton I have the honour to enclose a copy of a memorandum describing the mode of treatment which was adopted in his case, when attacked with the prevailing fever. I am happy to announce, that the malady has within two days considerably abated, and I have no doubt that each successive day will present still more favourable aspects. I have the honour to be with the...
3To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour to receive your Letter of the 25th of September yesterday; in consequence of which I immediately wrote to Mr Carter, that the sum requested should be furnished him at any time on his application. The Letter to Colonel Hamilton I shall not fail to transmit immediately. The malady which afflicts Philadelphia has not continued to abate in the manner I expected; it seems that the...
4To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honour to receive your Letter dated the 14th instant and have lost no time in obtaining the best information in my power, on the several questions therein stated. The malady with which the City is afflicted, has been progressive, from the time of your departure, untill Monday the 14th instant, at which time it had nearly extended through the City—Several small remissions have...
5To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been informed thro’ The Secretary of State, that you have been pleased to appoint me to the office of Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. It is with real diffidence that I undertake to discharge the important duties incident to this appointment; yet if constant exertions & strict fidelity can compensate for such qualifications as I may not possess, I indulge a hope that my...
6To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 12 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a draft of an instrument for constituting a temporary Comptroller of the Treasury. I have had a conference with the auditor & I learn from him that he will undertake to perform any duties which in the judgment of the President the public interest may require; but as he is engaged jointly with the Commissioner of the revenue in the settlement of certain important...
7To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 18 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to The President of the United States, certain documents, by which it appears that John Muir Collector for the District of Vienna in Maryland, has neglected his duty in failing to collect (or to institute in season, suits for the recovery of) bonds for duties due to the United States. This Collector has moreover failed to pay...
8To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 18 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor of transmitting to the President, of the U. States—two official Certificates of settlements made at the Treasury, by which it appears that the United States are indebted, To Joshua Yeates and James Ross for compensations and expenses while acting under a commission from the President, on business relating to the Insurrection in Pennsylvania 832.30...
9To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 24 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to the President of the United States a draft of a nomination to certain vacant offices. In case the supplementary collection law now on its passage shall be approved, certain offices will require to be filled before the first of May; for most of which proper characters have been brought in view. The Secretary of State concurs with me in...
10To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President of the United States, the result of certain conditional proposals made to the Bank of the United States, for obtaining a Loan of Eight hundred thousand Dollars of that Institution. It is believed that the terms are as reasonable as, under present circumstances, can be expected, and accordingly the form...
11To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor of transmitting to the President of the United States, two official Certificates of settlements made at the Treasury, by which it appears that the Ud States are indebted, To Aquila Giles, Marshal of the District of New York, for four hundred and forty six days custody of the privateer sloop Polly, & the expenses attendant thereon; seized by order of...
12To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit most respectfully to the consideration of The President a copy of a Letter from this Department to the President of the Bank of the United States, dated the 6th Instant, with a copy of certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of that Institution of the 10th of the present month. It will be seen that the Instalment of one million of...
13To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of The Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to The President of the United States, the enclosed communication from the Commissioner of the revenue stating the terms upon which a contract has been made for procuring nine chains for the use of the Buoys stationed off St Mary’s river, the harbour of Charleston, and the entrance of Chesapeak bay. It appears to the Secretary...
14To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of the Trustees for the redemption of the Public Debt, at the Senate Chamber on the 4th of April 1795. Present, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Treasury, The Attorney General; The Certificate of the Register of the Treasury being read, by which it appears that the quarterly interest of the Stock standing on the Books of the Treasury to the credit of the said Trustees...
15To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 7 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor most respectfully to transmit for the consideration of the President of the United States, sundry papers relative to a general arrangement of compensations for the officers employed in the collection of the internal Revenues which at the request of the Secretary have been prepared by the Commissioner of the Revenue. The additional latitude on the...
16To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of The Treasury has the honor of transmitting to The President of the United States an official Certificate of a settlement made at The Treasury; by which it appears that the United States are indebted to William Lindsay, Collector of Norfolk, the sum of Four hundred & eighty nine dollars & seven cents: being the amount paid by him to David M. Randolph Marshal for the District of...
17To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 30 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to the consideration of the President of the United States, a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 29th instant transmitting a proposal of Mr Peleg Coffin for supplying the U. States with Oil for the use of the Lighthouses. It is the opinion of the Secretary that it is for the Interest of the United States to close with the said...
18To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 9 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor most respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, copies of certain documents in respect to the official conduct of Edward Wigglesworth Collector of the Customs for the District of Newbury-port in the State of Massachusetts; by which it appears— 1st. That the said Collector has omitted to give bond with sureties for the faithful...
19To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President of the United States an account of David Lenox, late marshal of Pennsylvania, amounting to twelve hundred and thirty three Dollars. The two first charges respect a reasonable compensation for the services of the said Marshal on a journey to the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, including the expenses...
20To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 30 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to the requisition of the President of the United States respectfully submits his opinion upon the following questions, arising upon the resolution passed by the Senate on the 24th of the present month, respecting the proposed Treaty with Great Britain. 1st Is, or is not, the said resolution intended to be the final act of the Senate, or do they...
21To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 9 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to the President of the United States, a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 7th instant, covering proposals by Thomas Dodge and Jonathan Beck junior dated at Newbury Port on the 16th of June 1795 for erecting a Lighthouse on Plumb-Island in Massachusetts. It appears that the same persons proposed in May 1794 to erect the...
22To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 11 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of The Treasury has the honor most respectfully to inform The President of the United States, that it appears by communications from the Commissioner of the Revenue, to be expedient that some person be appointed to superintend the Lighthouse establishment at Bald head, on Cape Fear in North Carolina. It appears to the Secretary to be advisable that this agency should be committed...
23To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
I went to the State House yard last Saturday for the purpose of observing the proceedings—there were not in my opinion fifteen hundred persons present—and one half of this number took no part in what was done—the persons who voted, were of the ignorant & violent class of the community. Doct. Shippen was Chairman, & Dallas[,] Pettit, Swanwick, Muhlenbergh, McClenaghan[,] Barker, & Judge McKean...
24To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 29 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor most respectfully to represent to The President of the United States, that by an Act entitled “an act making further appropriations for the military and naval establishments & for the support of Government,” passed on the 3d day of March 1795, The President of the United States is empowered to borrow of the Bank of the United States or of any other...
25To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 17 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to the consideration of the President of the United States, a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 11 Inst. transmitting a proposal of Mr John McComb Junr of New York for erecting a Lighthouse upon Montaak point. It is the opinion of the Secretary that it is for the Interest of the United States to close with the said proposal....
26To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 18 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to the President of the United States a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 17th Inst: covering a proposal made by the honble Henry Dearborn esqur. for erecting a Lighthouse on Seguin Island in the District of Maine. It appears that in consequence of several petitions having been presented to Congress praying the repeal of...
27To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 27 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to the President of the United States a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 19th Instant, covering the copy of one to him from the Collector of Washington, on the subject of sundry Contracts made by the said Collector, for placing & Keeping up the stakes under his superintendence, and shifting & clearing the Buoys at the...
28To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 7 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honour of transmitting to The President of the United States an official Certificate of a settlement made at the Treasury, by which it appears that the United States are indebted to George Bush, Collector of Wilmington, the sum of twenty one dollars; being for Express hire & expenses incurred relative to the detention of the armed ship Jumeaux, Captn...
29To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
Private I have been absent from the office a few days to accompany Mrs W. from Elisabeth Town; on my return I recd Mr Dandridges Letter of the 16th—The taxes on the Presidents carriages have been paid and a Rect therefor will be enclosed. This City is anxiously waiting for Mr Randolph’s explanation—various reports much to his prejudice are in circulation—these are occasioned by communications...
30To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed papers are respectfully submitted to the consideration of the President; in consequence of which certain new appointments appear to be necessary. A Letter from John Ross Collector of Burlington District New Jersey dated July 2nd 1795, tendering his resignation on the 30th of September 1795. The person recommended is Mr Moses Kempton who from what I have been able to learn is a fit...