2251From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Pettit, 8 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 31st. of May. Inclosed are two statements shewing the precise sums of New Emission money, which have been paid over to the State of Pennsylvania, those which have been disposed of as on account of the United States, and the sum which is understood to be now in the Treasury. These statements will, I presume, answer every purpose, which can be desired, in...
2252From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Smith, 8 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You are right in considering yourself not authorized by Law to accept on the Loan of the assumed debt Certificates of the State of Pennsa. dated on or after the 1st day of January 1790. It is however my wish that you minute in a Book to be kept for that purpose the amount of such Certificates offered by any person together with the name of the person offering them. It will not be proper that...
2253To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 8 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], “ Treasury Department ,” 8 June 1791 . He thinks it would be useful if an officer of the U.S. in each foreign country where there is one were directed to transmit occasional state of the coins of the country, specifying standards, weights, and values, also periodical listing of market prices of gold and silver in coin and bullion, the rates of foreign exchange, and the wages...
2254From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 10 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Having received the return the want of which delayed a definitive answer to yours Letter of the fifth of May; I have now the honor to inform you that this department is ready to proceed in the business which is the Subject of it. According to the course of Proceedings at the Treasury the adjustment will begin with the Auditor and be completed by the Comptroller. The Auditor will accordingly be...
2255From Alexander Hamilton to William Campbell, Thomas Withers, M. R. Willkings, Auly Macnaughten, and George Hooper, 11 … (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th. of April relative to the lighthouse which was begun by the government of North Carolina on Cape Island, near the mouth of Cape Fear River. The general provisions made by Congress with respect to light houses do not extend further than repairing and maintaining them. Nothing therefore can at this moment be done in this case, though it is probable earlier...
2256From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 13 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On the receipt of this letter you will be pleased to pay to Mr. Stodder the balance due upon his contract with you for the building and outfit of the revenue cutter, provided you find he has duly complied with the Terms of his engagement. It is requisite that you transmit to the Treasury a copy of your Contract with Mr. Stodder. I am Sir, Your most Obedt Servant LS , Columbia University...
2257From Alexander Hamilton to John Cochran, 15 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am of opinion that the law under which you act does not justify the Commissioners in the payment of interest on any new loan certificate issued for the certificates of any state, which certificates were issued by that state in exchange for those of the federal debt, until the whole of the identical state certificates, so issued, have been exchanged or redeemed, or the continental...
2258Conversation with George Beckwith, 15 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. —— I believe I told you during the winter, that Colonel Smith went to England on private business altogether, in part for his Father in Law the Vice President, and he had other personal objects in respect to our funds. Whether it was conceived in London that Mr. Smith had political objects there or not, I cannot say, but after certain explanations, he had a conversation of some length with...
2259From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 16 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 16, 1791. On June 24, 1791, Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your favour 16th instant is received.” Letter not found. ]
2260From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, [17 June 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
A considerable time since Mr. Francis Cashier of the Bank of North America delivered me the inclosed piece of Metal which has Mr. Brasiers stamp and is alleged to be less valuable than the Stampt piece of equal weight to which it was intended to correspond by 8/10 Pa. Currency. This estimate is formed according to the specific gravity of the piece as ascertained by the Hydrostatic Ballance. In...
2261From Alexander Hamilton to John Davidson, 18 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been stated to me by the principal clerk of the Comptrollers Office, that on examining your accounts from October 1st to December 31st 1790 it appears that you have collected from American coasting vessels under twenty tons burthen the sum of two Dollars and forty cents. The collection of this sum being as I conceive unauthorized by law, and contrary to my circular instruction of Nov 30...
2262From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Whipple, 18 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th. instant and am much obliged by the historical Statement of the Trade of the State of New hampshire contained it. I consider a Coasting Licence as rendered void as to the remainder of the year, whenever a vessel departs from the United States upon a foreign Voyage. The Act of Congress of the 20th day of July 1790 intitles the owner of the Vessel you...
2263From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 13 inst: from Mt. Vernon; and, according to your desire, have informed Mr. Wolcott of your intention to appoint him Comptroller. This appointment gives me particular pleasure, as I am confident it will be a great & real improvement in the state of the Treasury Department. There can no material inconvenience attend the postponing a decision...
2264Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 22 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Having been directed by the House of Representatives to report a Plan for promoting Manufactures in the United States, I am desirous of obtaining as accurate Information as possible of the actual State of Manufactures in the several States. Conceiving that this Information is not likely to be obtained in any Way so complete, full and systematic, as by a resort to the Supervisors of the...
2265From Alexander Hamilton to Joshua Wentworth, 22 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 22, 1791. On September 7, 1791, Wentworth wrote to Hamilton : “Your letters of the 7th of May & 22nd June were duly received.” Letter of June 22 not found. ] As Wentworth was the supervisor of the revenue for the District of New Hampshire, this letter may have been the Treasury Department circular which H sent to the supervisors of the revenue on this date.
2266From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, [23 June 1791–1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton will have the honor of Dineing with the Vice President on the 30th. of June agreeably to his Obliging invitation. D , in unidentified handwriting, Hull Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
2267From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 23 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 23, 1791. “I have received your letter of the 14th instant, inclosing three certificates of public debt in the names of the Trustees of the sinking fund. Two of them are herewith returned, that they may be cancelled, and certificates of Transfer to the books of the Treasury, issued in lieu of them.…” LS , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the...
2268From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 23 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 23, 1791. On June 24, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I am this moment favored with your Letter of the 23rd.” Letter not found. ]
2269From Alexander Hamilton to William Heth, 23[–24] June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have before me your letter of the 16th instant. My opinion is that there is and necessarily must be a great number of undefined particulars incident to the general duty of every officer, for the requiring of which no special warrant is to be found in any law. The test of what he is obliged to do and what he is not must be the relation which the thing required bears to his prescribed or...
2270From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 25 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find from my Letter of the 23rd instant that I have extended the sum that may be received by the Bank of New York of persons intending to become subscribers to the Bank of the United States as far as 100,000 Dollars, which supercedes in a degree the requisition with regard to the Notes of your institution. I could not engage in the arrangement proposed by means of that paper because I...
2271From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 25 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I received two days since your letter of the 11th. of March last. Mine to you of the 13th. of April & of the 9th & 24th of May (of which copies are herewith sent) will have informed you of my opinion, concerning the negotiation for the transfer of the debt due to France, will have removed the impediments to your progress on the business committed to you, and will have apprised you of my views...
2272Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 25 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears proper that a notification to the distillers and importers of distilled spirits be published in the Gazettes, containing information of the Office of inspection in which they are (in the three first days of July) to make entry of the spirits by them respectively distilled or imported, which shall be on hand on the 1st day of July next. I am, sir, Your Most Obedt Servant LS , to...
2273From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 25 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Commissioner of Loans for the state of Maryland, after allowing for the Eight thousand dollars with which you furnished him, and a sum of five thousand dollars remitted him, in notes of the Bank of Maryland, would be deficient about five thousand five hundred Dollars of the sum requisite for the payment of the interest which will be payable in your state, upon the public debt on the first...
2274Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 27 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The legislature of the United States have directed in the 18th. Section of the Act making provision for the public debt that the payment of interest should be suspended in respect to the debt of any State which may have issued its own certificates for those of the ⟨U⟩nited States “until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that certificates issued for that...
2275Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 27 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inconveniencies have been apprehended by some of the holders of distilled spirits, other than importers and distillers , from the want of the Mark of “Old Stock” on the spirits they may have in store on the first day of July next. It appears advisable to let it be understood among the holders of spirits that if they desire their stock on hand to be examined and marked, their wishes will be...
2276From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 28 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 28, 1791. On June 30, 1791, Seton wrote to Hamilton : “I have been honored … with your Letter of the 28th.” Letter not found. ]
2277From Alexander Hamilton to John Fitzgerald, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 20th of June came duly to hand. The inclosed for our friend Lee was immediately forwarded to him. I was happy in the occasion of hearing from you. Are you doing any thing at Alexandria about the Bank of the United States? Tis to be wished the interest in it may be as much diffused as possible. Nor will this disserve your local views. The prospect is that in a week the...
2278From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Goodhue, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As Mr. Coxe, who I think informed me he had a letter from you on the same subject undertook to say all that could be said in relation to Mr. Gray’s affair; I permitted the hurry of business to keep me silent. Nothing further concerning the affair has since come to me; so that I am wholly ignorant what turn it may have taken. It must have given you pleasure to learn how much the constitution of...
2279From Alexander Hamilton to John Haywood, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your letter relative to the payment of the invalid pensioners of the State of North Carolina, and the two remittances, which have been made to you for the purpose of discharging the same. On receipt of this letter it is my desire that you pay to William Skinner Esqr. the Commr. of Loans or to his order the specie in your hands, and that you deliver to him the Treasurers draft...
2280From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since closing my letter, herewith transmitted, yours of the 4th. of March transmitting a copy of the contract for the last loan has been delivered to me. A ratification of that contract by the President will be forwarded as speedily as possible after his return to the seat of Government which is expected to be in the first week of the next month. There is in a late letter from Messrs. Willinks...