From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, [29 December 1790]
To Benjamin Lincoln
[Philadelphia, December 29, 1790]
Dear Sir
When I answered1 your letter2 concerning Mr Burges’s3 Vessel, being in a hurry, I trusted to my recollection of the act;4 but having since more particularly adverted to the terms of it, I entertain a doubt of the justness of the opinion then given. I wish therefore the affair may be considered as Standing for further consideration. I mean to take the Attorney General’s opinion;5 when you will hear further from me.
I remain with Very great regard Dear Sir Your Obed Servant
Alex Hamilton
Dec 29, 1790
Benjn Lincoln Esqr
Copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.
3. William Burgess.
4. “An Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes” ( 55–65 [September 1, 1789]).
5. See H to Richard Harison, January 29, 1791. Harison was United States attorney for the District of New York.