1To Benjamin Franklin from the Board of Treasury, 3 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society The Board do themselves the honor to transmit enclosed sundry orders respecting bills of Exchange together with the resolutions authorising them to be drawn, that you may be enabled to discover counterfeits— You will please to observe, that the several extracts from the Minutes of this Office refer to other Extracts which it is presumed are in your...
2To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 9 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
We are honored with your letter of yesterday expressing your desire of being furnished with such an account of this Department, as will enable you to form a full, precise and distinct Idea of the various transactions arising under it. It will require some days to make out the necessary Documents, to which such an account must necessarily refer; these are now preparing, and shall, from time to...
3To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 10 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
In conformity to the mode proposed in our letter of yesterday, we have the honor to commence the statement you require of the Department under our direction, with a view of the organization and duties of the Board of Treasury. We have the honor to be with high respect, Sir, Your most Obedient Humble Servants The Board of Treasury of the United States This Board was constituted by an ordinance...
4To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 18 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Auditor Johnston has represented to this Board that several Pay Masters and other Officers have resigned and quitted the army; without previously settling their accounts. This is an inconvenience which will greatly embarrass and obstruct the system laid down by Congress for adjusting the army accounts through the Auditors: And we beg that your Excellency will be pleased to give the proper...
5To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
By your Excellency’s Letter to Congress of the 4th instt we are happy to be made acquainted that Proposals for an Exchange of Prisoners, by the Commanders in Chief of the American and British Armies, are in the Way of being opened. How far the Subject on which we now trouble Your Excellency may be involved, or ought to be thought of previous to or in any Discussion of this Matter, we cannot...
6To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 21 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Secretary Lear having applied to this office for a statement of the Post Office accounts, as entered in the books of the treasury, we do ourselves the honor of transmitting an abstract statement of them to the last of December 1788. No final adjustment has been made of the present Postmaster General’s accounts for the two last years, for the reasons stated in our communication No. 6, on the...
7Enclosure: From the Board of Treasury, 11 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Officers immediately annexed to, or connected with the administration of the Board of Treasury, in paying and receiving public Monies, and passing accounts: and forms of doing business by such officers. The principal Officers under the first description are as follows. A Secretary—whose duty it is to aid the Board of Treasury in such matters, as they may judge requisite for the proper...
8To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 7 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
We do ourselves the Honor of transmitting to you the Resolves of Congress of the 15 th. day of February last from which you will observe the Embarrassments under which the United States labor to Comply with their Foreign Engagements through the want of Exertions in the several States to pay in their Quotas of the Annual Requisitions.— The present State of the Treasury is in Consequence so...
9To Benjamin Franklin from the Board of Treasury, 29 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society The inclosed Resolutions were referred by Congress to the Board of Treasury with Direction to take Order thereon. The impractibility of executing the Work in this part of the World obliges the Board to forward them to you with an earnest request to have the Medals voted struck as soon as possible with such Devices as may be judged emblematical of the...
10To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 25 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
We are favor’d with your Letter of the 8 th: of May last, transmitting Protests for Non Acceptance of the two Bills of Exchange for 75,000 Florins; drawn by Constable Rucker & C o. of New York on their Partner M r. John Rucker of London— From the Solidity of the House by whom the Bill was drawn (being in Partnership with M r. Robert Morris of Phil a. ) we had not the most distant Apprehension...
11To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
No. 6 Sir Board of Treasury [New York City] July 23d 1789. We have the honor of transmitting to you a Report on the General State of the Treasury, with the Official Documents explanatory of the same. We have the honor to be with high respect Sir Your obedient humble Servants Board of Treasury July 22d 1789 On the General State of the Treasury. From the statement made by the register of the...
12To Benjamin Franklin from the Board of Treasury, 16 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I have the Honer of informing you that two Setts of Exchange four Bills to each Sett for 900 Livres Tournois each No 1 in Faver of Nicholas Fouquet and No 2 in Faver of Mark Fouquet payable at thirty Days Sight have been this Day drawn upon you pursuant to the enclosed Act of Congress of the 12th. Instant; and I am directed by the Board of Treasury to...
13To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 4 April 1787 (Adams Papers)
We have the Honor of Enclosing to you a Letter to Mess rs: Wilhelm and Jan Willink, and Nicholas and Jacob Van Staphorst on the Subject of the Interest, which will become due on the Dutch Loans in the month of June next— This Letter, after Perusal, you will be pleas’d to seal and forward; together with the Enclosed Bills of Exchange, when Accepted by the Gentleman on whom they are drawn— Viz...
14To John Adams from Board of Treasury, 6 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
We do ourselves the Honor of transmitting to you a Duplicate of our Letters to yourself, and the Commissioners of the Dutch Loans of the 7 th: and 22 d: March last. The latter together with one of this Date addressed to the same Gentlemen & Enclosing a Bill in their Favor on Mess rs: Wilhem, and Jan Willink of Amsterdam, we Request the Favor of you to forward by the first Mail— Our Letter to...
15To Benjamin Franklin from the Board of Treasury, 24 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I have the Honor to acquaint you that an Accident has happened to a Messenger employed in bringing Dispatches from the State of Virginia to this City in loosing his Saddle Bags at Bush Town in Maryland, in which was a Packet from Mr Hopkins the present Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office there, containing a Number of sets of Bills of Exchange drawn...
16To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed documents marked A. B. C. shew the state of the Domestic Debt of the United States to the 3d day of March last: the arrears of Principal and Interest on the Foreign Debt to the end of the present year: and the annual provision which must be made for the payment of the accruing Interest, and Installments of Principal (agreeably to the respective conventions) to the period of the...
17To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 11 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed paper No. 2, which we have the honor of transmitting, will, with its annexed documents, complete our view of the Constitution, duties and general forms of business of the Board of Treasury and of the offices more immediately connected with it. Were we to pursue strictly our own ideas of order, we should proceed, in the same manner, with the subordinate officers and departments...
18To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
In a communication we had lately the honor of making to you, on the subject of the Foreign and Domestic Debt; we observed that the Indents of Interest computed in circulation on the 12th of June last, was Dolls. 2,128,694, and that this amount might perhaps in future enter into the general mass of the Domestic Debt. We have since directed an Estimate to be made at the Treasury, of the Interest...
19Board of Treasury to Virginia Delegates, 15 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
We have considered the letter you did us the honor to write on the 12th Inst. and the Resolve of Congress of the 13th. June 1781 and beg leave to refer you to an Act of Congress of the 20th. February 1782; by which we apprehend Dr. Draper’s Account could only be settled at the Treasury of the United States; if he did not belong to the State of Virginia; which from his application to the...
20To John Adams from the Board of Treasury, 31 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
In your Letter of the 19 th May last, you were pleased to inform us that you had already accepted Bills which had been drawn on you to a considerable amount by M r. Barclay and Lamb, in consequence of the appropriation which had been made by Congress for forming Treaties with the Barbary Powers; but as we have no advice from you since that date, we are at a loss to know whether the whole or...