121Reports on the Accounts of the Commissioners of Loans, [3 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith the accounts called for by a resolution of the House of Representatives of Friday last, together with a Statement by the Register exhibiting the detail of the Estimate, to which that resolution relates, and the copy of a letter from him to me of this date. As the accounts are original papers, and necessary documents of the Treasury, I pray that the House...
122Enclosure: [List of the Accounts of the Commissioners of Loans], [3 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Number. States. Loan Officers. No. of Treasury Settlement. Periods. Amount. Total. New Hampshire William Gardner No Account rendered 1. Massachusetts Nat. Appleton. 2533. 1st. January 1792 to 31st. March 1019.27. 2. do.
123Enclosures: [Statements], [November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
States Districts Collectors Gross amount of Payments for Balances in the hands of Collectors. Monies received by the Treasurer Duties on Merchandize. Duties on Tonnage. Fines Penalties and Forfeitures. Drawbacks on Merchandize exported. Bounties on salted Fish and Provision exported. Expenses on Collection of the Duties. Expenses attending
124Report on the Petition of Abraham Scribner and Thomas Cable, [30 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of Abraham Scribner and Thomas Cable, respectfully [submits] the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks compensation for the hire and value of a sloop, alleged to have been impressed into the public service, in August 1776, by Hugh Hughes, then Assistant Quarter-Master, with an engagement to pay, at the rate of four...
125Report on the Redemption of the Public Debt, [30 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to two resolutions of the House of Representatives, one of the 21st instant, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report a plan for the redemption of so much of the public debt, as by the Act, intituled “An Act making provision for the debt of the United States,” the United States have reserved the right to redeem; the other of the 22d instant, directing him to report the...
126Enclosure A: [Table Showing the Effect of a Sum Annually Created], 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Table Shewing the Effect of a Sum Annually Created, Equal to the Interest of the Sum to Be Redeemed, Within Each Year, for a Period of Nine Years, Commencing from the 1st of January 1793. On the Supposition, That the Interest on the Sum Annually Redeemed, Be Invested, As It Is Liberated, in the Purchase of 6 Per Cent Stock, at the Price of 22 Shillings in the Pound. Periods of redemption Sums...
127Enclosure B: Table Exhibiting a View of the Proposed Plan of Redemption, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Table Exhibiting a View of the Proposed Plan of Redemption. N: B: All the calculations in this table proceed upon a rate of five per cent interest. Periods of redemption or payment. Sums redeemable. Temporary Loans. Amount of sums borrowed with compound interest to the respective periods of reimbursement. Years when Annuities begin to accrue. Years Annuities.
128Enclosure C: Mode of Constituting the Proposed Annuities, 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Mode of Constituting the Proposed Annuities. 1793. Surplus dividend of Bank stock beyond the interest which will be payable, estimated at 60.000. Tax 43.199. 6 103.199. 6. 1794. Tax 109.391.60. 1795. Tax 115.955.17. 1796. Part of annual interest converted into annuity 20.000. Tax 102.912.48 122.912.48.
129Enclosure D: [View of Redeeming Fund], 30 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
View of Redeeming Fund to and upon the 1st. January 1802. Interest which will have been liberated by purchases and payments into the Treasury, exclusive of redemptions, according to the proposed plan 65.000. Jan: 1st. 1794, by redemption of, 550.000 dols. rate 6 per cent 33.000. ditto, 1795, by ditto of, 583.000, at ditto 34.980. ditto,
130Report on the Petition of Griffith Jones, [28 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of Griffith Jones, by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 14th. instant, thereupon respectfully reports: That the case is one of those stated in a former Report to the House, dated the 16th of April 1792, as barred by the Acts of limitation. That the present petition is accompanied with a Certificate, recently given...
131Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary at War informs me that the arrangement which has been made by him for supplying provisions and other necessaries at the several recruiting rendezvouses within the State of Maryland will expire with the present year; and that a further arrangement will be necessary for the succeeding year. Convinced that under your care the business would be put upon the most proper footing, I...
132Report on the Petition of Joseph Ball and Isaac Ledyard, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the petition of Joseph Ball and Isaac Ledyard, respectfully submits the following report thereupon. The said petition contains the following suggestions. “That an armed Dutch Ship, named the Renown, owned chiefly by Mr. John Ball, Burgher of St. Eustatius, and employed by him in a trade between that place and...
133Report on the Petition of George Blanchard, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of George Blanchard, respectfully submits the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks compensation for services alleged to have been performed, under the order of the Navy-Board for the eastern department, by Edward Blanchard; stating, that the accounts for those services were rendered, in...
134Report on the Petition of Benjamin Brown, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Benjamin Brown, submits the following Report thereupon. The Act of the last Session, entitled “An Act providing for the settlement of the claims of persons under particular circumstances barred by the limitations heretofore established,” removes all obstacles to the claim of the petitioner,...
135Report on the Petition of Pitman Collins, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives the petition of Pitman Collins, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks compensation for a vessel alleged to have been impressed into the service of the United States, during the late war, to have been wrecked on her voyage, and to have finally fallen into the hands of the enemy....
136Report on the Petition of Hugh Cunningham, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of Hugh Cunningham, submits the following report thereupon. Respectfully referring the House of Representatives, to his report of the 17th Instant, on the subject of depreciation generally; The Secretary begs leave to add, That the claim of the petitioner is in the capacity of an Officer of the...
137Report on the Petition of Margaret Fisher, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of Margaret Fisher, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks compensation for expenditures and services, alleged to have rendered and made, by Henry Fisher (the petitioner’s deceased husband) he having been stationed, during the late war, at Lewes near Cape Henlopen,...
138Report on the Petition of Aquila Giles, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the Memorial of Aquila Giles, in behalf of sundry inhabitants of Long Island, by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 12th of February 1791, thereupon respectfully submits the following Report. The Memorial sets forth, that the provision made by Congress, by their Act passed the 12th of August 1790, for discharging certain debts,...
139Report on the Petition of Udny Hay, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Udney Hay, respectfully makes the following Report, thereupon. The said petition seeks payment of interest upon a certain promissory note recited therein, from Christopher Greene and Return Jonathan J. Meigs to Simon Frazer, which is understood to have been given, for a sum of money advanced...
140Report on the Petition of John Jones, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of John Jones, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The petition seeks a compensation for certain storehouses, which, it is alleged, were destroyed by the enemy, during the late war with Great Britain, upon the ground of a contract alleged to have been made with certain persons, on...
141Report on the Petition of Prudent La Jeunesse, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of Prudent La Jeunesse, respectfully submits the following Report. The petition suggests no specific ground of claim on the justice of the United States, but rather appears to seek a gratuity, in consideration of having espoused the cause of the United States, early in the late war, of having...
142Report on the Petition of John Lewis, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of John Lewis, by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 8th of December 1790, thereupon makes the following Report: The petition seeks to obtain the settlement and payment of a claim, which is barred by the Acts of limitation. The Secretary, having in his report of the 16th of April last, upon the petitions of several...
143Report on the Petition of William McGilton, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of William M’Gilton, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The petitioner, by his said petition, claims compensation for his services, as a Clerk to John Reynolds, an Assistant Commissary of Issues, from the 14th of October 1780, to the 18th of January 1781. It appears, that the...
144Report on the Petition of Reuben Murray, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Reuben Murray, respectfully submits the following Report. The petition seeks compensation for certain advances, alleged to have been made in Canada, in the year 1776, for the benefit of a detachment of sick soldiers under the charge of the petitioner. The nature of the claim is a meritorious...
145Report on the Petition of Ebenezer Prout, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Ebenezer Prout, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The said petition seeks compensation for the services of the petitioner, as Clerk to Joshua Mercereau, Assistant Commissary of prisoners, and William Hunt, Assistant Commissary of Issues. The accounts of the said Joshua...
146Report on the Petition of David M. Randolph, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of David M. Randolph, respectfully makes the following report thereupon. The said petition seeks compensation for a quantity of flour, taken by the then enemy, in the year 1776; founding the claim upon the following suggestions. 1st. That Richard Randolph, the petitioner’s testator, some time early in the year 1776, contracted to...
147Report on the Petition of Elizabeth Rockwell, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the House of Representatives, the petition of Elizabeth Rockwell, Administratrix of William Rockwell, respectfully makes the following Report thereupon. The said petition seeks compensation for Scow hire, freight and some small articles of supply, amounting together to £38.13. lawful money of Connecticut, alleged to have been contracted...
148Report on the Petition of Stephen Steele, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the Memorial of Stephen Steele, submits the following report thereupon. That the Memorialist prays for the allowance of an Account, exhibited by him, amounting to five hundred and one pounds, eight shillings and seven pence, New York Currency, for work and materials expended in preparing and fitting up...
149Report on the Petition of Sundry Merchants of Wilmington, North Carolina, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of sundry merchants of Wilmington in the State of North Carolina, by an order of the House of Representatives of the 26th of May 1790, thereupon respectfully reports: That the case of the petitioners, as appears by their own shewing, is one arising wholly under the laws of the State of North Carolina, prior to its acceding to the...
150Report on the Petition of Thomas Wickes, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of Thomas Wickes, by an order of the House of Representatives, of the 13th of April 1790, thereupon respectfully reports: That the case, in which the petitioner seeks relief, is one of those provided for in the Act of Congress, passed the 12th of August 1790. That the claim, appearing to have been included in a return made to the...