Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 23 May 1792
Treasury Department Circular
to the Collectors of the Customs1
Treasury Department
May 23. 1792.
Sir
I have to request, if in future you should have any particular communication to make to the Secretary of the Treasury, that you will designate Your Office upon the outside of your letters.
I am, Sir, Your Obedt. Servant
A Hamilton
LS, The Turner Manuscript Collection at the Torrington Library, Torrington, Connecticut; LS, sold by Kingston Galleries, Inc., Lot 77, Catalogue No. 4; LS, Independence National Historical Park Collection, Old Custom House, Philadelphia
1. Although there is no addressee given on either copy of this circular letter, presumably it was addressed to the collectors of the customs as an amplification of the directions H gave in “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” May 10, 1792.