To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 18 March 1793
From Joseph Nourse
Treasury Department
Registers Office 18 March
1793.
Sir
I have the Honor to transmitt for your Inspection sundry Statements No. 1 to 12 which have been made out at the Request of the Hon: W. Smith of So. Carolina.1 Permit me to intimate that Mr. Smith woud wish to be furnishd with them some time Tomorrow as he Expects to sail for Charlestown on Wednesday morning.2 I have not conceived it necessary to render these Statements under Signature, as Mr. Smiths view is confind to his own Information, But shoud this be requisite, I presume it might be safely done. With the greatest Respect, I am Sir,
your mo: ob. Sert.
Hon: Alexander Hamilton Esqr.
Secretary of the Treasury
Copy, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National Archives.
1. Statements 1 through 11 may be found in RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1793, Vol. “135-T,” National Archives. Statement 12 has not been found. The following list of the statements requested by William Loughton Smith, member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina, is attached to Nourse’s letter:
2. After his reelection to Congress in February, 1793, Smith returned to South Carolina to obtain support for Federalist policies among the newly elected Congressmen from the backcountry of South Carolina.