51To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to enclose for your inspection a statement of the Loans recd. by the United States from the Government of France with a calculation of the Interest due thereon to the 1st. day of January 1792. In this statement no notice is taken of the advances made at the Treasury of the United States or of the remittances by the Dutch Commissioners on account of said Loans. In the account...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott Junior, [February 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
By Letters lately recd. from Albany, by Gentlemen interested in the Merchants Bank, we are informed, that a meeting of political characters connected with the Legislature, has been held, and that it has been resolved at all events to suppress this Company. This violent decision was altogether unexpected, as from prior intelligence, it appeared that several influential characters of the ruling...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I am oblidged to you for the intimation in your Letter of the 9th. instant. I have known for some time that Mr. Swan has misrepresented my conduct—he knows that I have more than fullfilled my Contract, that it was an express agreement, that the risque & expence of transmitting the money from Paris to Amsterdam should be borne by him—that Mr. Monroe was a mutual Agent, not the Agent of the...
54To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letter of Decr. 6th. The Warrant for the sum due to the Bank of New York was issued punctually, by some neglect or accident in the Treasurers Office, it remained undischarged. I have taken measures for the payment. By a Letter from Mr. Wilkes I find that the Bank claim a payment of Interest by way of discount and the 200.000 Dollars continued on Loan on the security of a...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit an Account of the Receipts & Expenditures of the United States for the year 1792, stated from the Records of the Treasury Department pursuant to the permanent Order of the House of Representatives of the 30th. of December 1791. It will be observed that the statement of appropriations & Expenditures now presented, varies in the detail of the Arrangement, from that which was...
56To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 July 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letter with the enclosures. By what I last sent you, you will see the perfidy of at least Munroe. I will attend to your request as soon as possible, but all my time this day will be taken up, and perhaps tomorrow. yrs. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see the introductory note to Wolcott to H, July 3, 1797 . Letter not found. The...
57To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to transmit the following statements of disbursements by the Department of War in the years 1790 & 1791. Number 1. Being a statement of the accounts of Henry Knox Esq. Secretary at War as settled at the Treasury. No. 2. Being a statement of the accounts of Joseph Howell Esq. from the 10th. of Sept. 1789. to the 1st. of March 1790. as settled at the Treasury. No. 3. Being a...
58To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 23 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to submit to your consideration, a draft of a Letter to the Contractors of the Army, respecting the payment of Subsistence to Officers—and a proposal for an alteration in the form of the Abstract of Rations issued, which will be particularly necessary in case the proposed arrangement is adopted. It has occurred as a question whether the third section of the Act making...
59To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 31 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
By your direction I have examined the accounts of the several Loan officers, who serv’d under the late ordinance of Congress, and have now the honor to communicate my observations thereon. The accounts of Nathaniel Gilman, of New Hampshire, Nathaniel Appleton, of Massachusetts, William Ellery of Rhode-Island, William Imlay of Connecticut, John Cochran of New York, James Ewing of New Jersey,...
60To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 20 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On examining the Accounts of Vincent Redman, Collector of the Customs, for the District of Yeocomico River, in the State of Virginia, for the Quarter ending 31st: March 1791, it appears, that he has charged duties on the Sloop Maria, an American Coasting Vessel, under Twenty Tons burthen at the rate of six cents per Ton, per Annum, to the amount of Ninety Cents. As the Collection of those...