Report on Several Petitions Barred by the Acts of Limitation, [27 February 1794]
Report on Several Petitions Barred
by the Acts of Limitation1
[Philadelphia, February 27, 1794
Communicated on March 3, 1794]2
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom were referred by the House of Representatives, the several Petitions noted at foot hereof, respectfully reports thereupon as follows—
The Claims to which the said petitions severally relate, are barred by the Acts of Limitation.3
The Secretary has repeatedly and especially in his Report of the 16th. of April 1792,4 suggested the weighty reasons which operate against relaxations in regard to the Acts of Limitation.
There appear in the Cases, now submitted, no reasons sufficiently special or discriminating to render it, in his Judgment, expedient or safe, to make them Objects of particular Legislative exception.
Which is humbly submitted
Alexander Hamilton
Secy. of the Treasury.
February 27th. 1794.
Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1784–1795, Vol. IV, National Archives.
1. This report was one of twenty-nine reports on petitions enclosed in H to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, February 27, 1794.
2. , II, 77–78.
5. This petition was referred to H on March 29, 1792 (, I, 554).
6. This petition was referred to H on December 5, 1792 (, I, 634).
7. This petition was referred to H on December 18, 1792 (, I, 650).
8. This and the next petition were referred to H on February 9, 1793 (, I, 697).
9. This petition was referred to H on December 24, 1793 (, II, 20).
10. This petition was referred to H on January 10, 1794 (, II, 32).
11. This petition was referred to H on June 24, 1790 (, I, 250).
12. This petition was referred to H on September 25, 1789 (, I, 123).
13. This petition was referred to H on March 19, 1792 (, I, 539–40).