3701Enclosure E: [Net Amount of Duties on Imports and Tonnage], 2 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Abstract of the Net Amount of Duties on Imports and Tonnage, Which Have Accrued in the United States, During the First and Second Quarters of the Year 1793. States. 1st Qr. ending 31st March, 1793. Dolls. Cents. 2d Qr. ending 30th June. Dolls. Cents. Total amount. Dolls. Cents. New-Hampshire 26,393.26 26,393.26 Massachusetts 7,823.52¾ 340,621. 5¾ 348,444,58½ Rhode-Island 1,665.52 67,078.93
3702Receipt from George Parkinson, [2 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Received May 2d. 1792 of Alexander Hamilton One hundred Dollars on account of The Society for establishing useful manufactures. D , in the writing of H and signed by Parkinson, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Parkinson had arrived in the United States in 1790. On December 7, 1791, H wrote to the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures recommending Parkinson’s...
3703Receipt from William Pearce, [26 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Received Philadelphia May 26. 1792 of Alexander Hamilton forty Dollars on account of the Society for establishing useful Manufactures. D , in the writing of H and signed by Pearce, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
3704Philo Camillus No. I, [27 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Camillus has stated truly, that Denmark Sweden and the U States acted upon the same principle in their resistance to the attacks of Great Britain upon their neutrality. But it would have been useful to have entered into a little more detail. Denmark and Sweden equipped each a fleet and negotiated under the influence of this demonstration of their eventual intent. The UStates had not the means...
3705Rules on Neutrality, 3 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
1. The original arming and equipping of vessels in the ports of the United States by any of the belligerent parties, for military service offensive or defensive, is deemed unlawful. 2. Equipments of merchant vessels by either of the belligerent parties in the ports of the United States, purely for the accommodation of them as such, is deemed lawful. 3. Equipments in the ports of the United...
3706Cabinet Opinions on Edmond Charles Genet, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At meetings of the heads of departments and the Attorney General at the President’s on the 1st. and 2d. of Aug. 1793. On a review of the whole of Mr. Genet’s correspondence and conduct, it was unanimously agreed that a letter should be written to the Minister of the US. at Paris, stating the same to him, resuming the points of difference which had arisen between the government of the US. and...
3707Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaw, 1 [–5] June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
That an Agent be sent to the Choctaw nation to endeavor secretly to engage them to support the Chickasaws in their present war with the Creeks, giving them for that purpose arms and ammunition sufficient: and that it be kept in view that if we settle our differences amicably with the Creeks, we at the same time mediate effectually the peace of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, so as to rescue the...
3708Cabinet Opinions on Indian Affairs, [25 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The President having required the attendance of the heads of the three departments and of the Attorney general at his house on Monday the 25th. of Feb. 1793. the following questions were proposed and answers given. 1. The Governor of Canada having refused to let us obtain provisions from that province or to pass them along the water communication to the place of treaty with the Indians, and...
3709Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creeks, 31 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Heads of departments and Attorney General at the President’s on the 31st. day of Aug. 1793. A letter from Mr. Gore to Mr. Lear dated Boston Aug. 24. was read, stating that the Roland, a privateer fitted out at Boston and furnished with a commission under the government of France, had sent a prize into that port, which being arrested by the Marshal of the district by process...
3710Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Furnishing Three Million Livres Agreeably to the Request of the French Minister, [25 … (Hamilton Papers)
Feb. 25. 1793. The President desires the opinions of the heads of the three departments and of the Attorney General on the following question, to wit. Mr. Ternant having applied for money equivalent to three millions of livres to be furnished on account of our debt to France at the request of the Executive of that country, which sum is to be laid out in provisions within the US. to be sent to...
3711Contract with Melancton Smith, [15 March 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States of America, and Melancton Smith of the City of New York Merchant. First. That the said Melancton Smith shall supply the posts of Westpoint on Hudsons River and of Springfield on Connecticut River, with all Rations which may be required for the use of the said posts, from the 1st. day of January to the...
3712Conversation with Jean Baptiste de Ternant, [7 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, October 7 , 1791 ] “… M. Hamilton m’ayant parlé fort longuement de l’importance que les Etats unis attachoient à l’extension de leur commerce avec nos colonies, je lui ai observé que la France avoit déjà beaucoup accordé à cet égard, qu’elle étoit la premiere puissance qui au prejudice de ses négocians, et par un pur motif de bienveillance de la part du Roi, eut ouvert ses...
3713T. L. No. II, [28 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For the Gazette of the United States. Mr. Fenno, In your Gazette of last Wednesday, after observing that the Editor of the National Gazette receives a salary from government, I enquired “whether this salary is paid him for translations; or for publications , the design of which is to vilify those to whom the voice of the people has committed the administration of our public affairs.” In his...
3714Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 27 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the 18th Section of the Act, making provision for the debt of the United States, it is declared that the payment of interest, whether to States or to Individuals, in respect to the debt of any State which may have exchanged its own securities for those of the United States, shall be suspended until a reexchange shall have taken place or a surrender be made of the last mentioned securities....
3715Report on the Petition of William Wirtz, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by an order of the House of Representatives of the 8th of January 1793, the petition of William Wirtz, thereupon respectfully reports as follows— It is stated by the petitioner, that he acted as Barrack Master and Assistant Commissary of Prisoners in the Borough of Lancaster during a certain period in the year 1782, for which Services he...
3716Enclosure: Probable State of Cash up to the 1. July 1794, [21 March 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Probable demands on the Treasury to the first of July 1794—vist. For the Departmt. of War by estimation 400,000 For the payment of foreign officers 127,474.75. For sums informally advanced by the bank of the U.S. for the public service for want of appropriation. 99,543.05 For bills purchased & to be purchased to remit to Amsterdam for payments of interest & instalment falling due on the...
3717Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan Officers, 12 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
As I am not certain in what light the Commissioners of the Loan Office in the several states may consider themselves with regard to their continuance in Office, under the old establishment, I think it necessary to apprise them, that the provision which has been made for their compensation does not extend beyond the 30th. June last; being the period to which warrants were issued by the late...
3718Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 13 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Commissioners for settling the accounts between the united States and the Individual States having made their final report to the President, dated the 29th of June 1793 I am to announce to Your Excellency, that a Balance of [Seventy five thousand and fifty five Dollars] has been reported by the said Commissioners in favour of the State of [New Hampshire.] I have the honor to be with...
3719Report 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,...
3720Report on the Petition of Joseph Bennett, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by an order of the House of Representatives of the 24th of December 1792 the Memorial of Joseph Bennet thereupon respectfully Reports as follows— The Memorialist represents that in May and August 1779 certain debts were paid to him in old Continental Money which having been declared a legal Tender by Congress, he had been obliged to receive at...
3721Enclosure 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.
3722Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 4 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is deemed conducive to the general order of the department that the respective Commissioners of loans should henceforth transmit to the Comptroller of the Treasury all such official statements returns and documents respecting the public debt as they have been or shall be directed to furnish, except the summary of the amount of each kind of stock standing upon their books which has been...
3723Enclosure I: [Statement of the Several Sums which Have Been Borrowed for the Use of the United States], 3 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Statement of the Several Sums Which Have Been Borrowed for the Use of the United States by Virtue of the Acts of the Fourth and Twelfth of August 1790, Shewing the Particular Application of the Monies, to the First of January 1793, Inclusively, and the Balance Remaining Unapplied. Loans (A) Florins. Sts. d. First Loan, made at Amsterdam, commencing on the 1st of February 1790, at 5 per cent...
3724Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 7 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
It is necessary to inform you that the late Loan Officers Certificates for Interest due on the public Debt are to be received only at the New Loan Office for the State wherein such Interest Certificates were issued. The Certificates contemplated, are those given in lieu of the Indents or facilities signed by M. Hillegas Josh. Hardy or Henry Kuhl. As there will probably be presented to you...
3725Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 22 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of arrangements lately taken with the Bank of North America, and the Bank of New York, for the accommodation of the Government, I am to inform you that it is my desire, that the Notes of those Banks, payable either on demand, or at no longer period than thirty days after their respective dates; should be received in payment of the duties, as equivalent to Gold and Silver, and...
3726Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 1 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
The Comptroller of the Treasury will forward to you by this or the ensuing post the whole of the forms necessary for making your Returns to this Office, and rendering your Accounts at the Treasury. You will observe that in these general forms it is not required that you should make a Monthly Return of the Duties on Imports, and that in the Weekly return the Cash receipts and Disbursements (and...
3727Report on the Petition of Gosuinus Erkelens, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by an order of the House of Representatives of the 3d. of November 1791, the Petition of Gosuinus Erkelens, thereupon respectfully makes the following Report— That the Secretary has heretofore reported on the Case of the Petitioner upon a former Application and reference. That the Petitioner having since died, it is conceived that a renewal of...
3728Report on the Petition of James Gamble, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred the Petition of James Gamble by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 14th. instant thereupon respectfully Reports— That the Claim of the petitioner has been heretofore considered and rejected, as appears, on the Journals of Congress under date the 15th of April 1784. That the Petitioner having been informed of this decision, (of...
3729Enclosure: Statement G: [Statement Showing the Probable Surplus of the Revenue], 16 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A Statement Shewing the Probable Surplus of the Revenue of the United States for the Year 1792 Dollars Cents Net product of Duties on Imports and Tonnage from the 1st of January to the 31st of December 1792, as estimated This sum is estimated by adding to the ascertained product of the year 1791 an ascertained excess of the product of the first two quarters of the year 1792, beyond the product...
3730Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have already written to you in regard to the disbursements of the Revenue Cutter on your station, except the pay of the officers and men, and have now to request that you will duly attend to that business also, so as to have in your hands the entire agency. A form will be transmitted to you, in which you will make your quarterly returns at the same periods (though distinctly) as in the...
3731Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 20 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
On Reflection, I have concluded to substitute the Form herewith transmitted for the Monthly returns required in mine of the 2d. Oct. instant, as less troublesome than the one there proposed; but I still mean that the Quarterly Returns should be conformable to the Model already furnished. I shall expect as soon as may be a Return of all the past according to that Model up to the last of...
3732Enclosure 1: [List of Persons Employed in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury], 3 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
List of Persons Employed in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, with Their Salaries Annexed. Names. Rank. Salary. Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury Dollars, 3.500. John Meyer } principal Clerks, at { 800. Edward Jones 800 dollars each 800. Leighton Wood Clerk 600. Andrew G: Fraunces
3733Report on the Petition of John McLean, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by an Order of the House of Representatives of the 26th. of December 1793, the Petition of John McLean, thereupon respectfully reports, as follows— The Petitioner claims compensation for damages done upon his Farm in Dutchess County in the State of New York by the American Army in the Year 1778. This being a Case in principle similar to that...
3734Report on the Petition of James Read, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred the Memorial of James Read by an order of the House of Representatives of the 29th. of April 1790, thereupon respectfully reports. That the facts stated by the memorialist are understood to be true. That the paper No. 2 herewith is a true Copy of a report made on the Subject to Congress by the late Board of Treasury upon a former Application....
3735Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 23 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It is understood that by virtue of the seventeenth article of our Treaty with Sweden, vessels of that nation are exempted from the operation of the embargo, now in force, in the ports of the United States, pursuant to the resolutions of Congress of the 26th of March and 18th instant. You will therefore upon application grant clearances, as usual, to such Swedish vessels as may happen to be in...
3736Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 11 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I find there are some certificates for interest issued in lieu of “ Indents of Interest ” in the State of Georgia, which express that they are for as many Dollars (as by recurrence to the records of the principal Certificates) would have been the Interest, if those certificates had been for specie, although they are liable to liquidation, at various rates according to their dates. I think it...
3737Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 9 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
From your weekly statement of Cash I calculate that you will have sufficient funds in your hands to discharge the allowances to fishing vessels, which will become due in your District on the 31st instant. You will therefore pay those allowances agreeably to the instructions heretofore given for that purpose. I request however that you will furnish me with an estimate of the sum which will be...
3738Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 21 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It being necessary to fix the rates at which the additional rations for the Officers of the Cutters are to be paid for, I have determined, on consideration, to instruct you to allow to the Captain & other Officers of the Cutter, under your Agency, the sum of nine Cents for every ration which they shall not draw, and for which they shall prefer to receive payment in money. It will also be...
3739Report on the Petition of William Stearns, [27 February 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the Petition of William Stearns thereupon respectfully reports as follows— The Petitioner in Capacity of Administrator of the Estate of Peleg Stearns deceased, claims compensation for certain property stated to have been taken by and applied to the use of the Continental Army at Charlestown in the State of...
3740Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 1 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
The United States in Congress having by their Act of the 7th. of August last Ordained “That all expences for the necessary support and maintenance of Light-houses, Beacons, Buoys &ca. within any Port or Harbour of the United States, should after the 15th. of August last, be defrayed out of the Treasury of the United States”; You will be pleased to transmit forthwith to this Office, as...
3741Report 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....
3742Report on Bank Deposits, Surplus Revenue, and Loans, 16 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith, pursuant to the order of the Senate, of yesterday, the following documents, viz: Books, No 1 and 2, containing the current Cash Account between the United States and the Bank of the United States from the commencement of the operations of that Institution until this day. Files A, B, C, D A containing a series of accounts beginning the 16th of June 1792...
3743Report 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...
3744Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 3 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You will receive herewith an Act of Congress of the 8th. of february last entitled “An Act for giving effect to the several Acts therein mentioned in respect to the State of North Carolina and other purposes.” which I transmit for your government. I am Sir Your Obedt Servt. LS , to Charles Lee, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; L[S] , to Benjamin Lincoln, RG 36, Collector of...
3745Enclosure 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.
3746Report on Loans Negotiated in Europe Not Already Laid Before the Legislature, [27 May 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 26th instant respectfully makes the following Report: The only Loan which has been negotiated in Europe, the particulars of which have not already been communicated to the House of Representatives, is one for three Millions of Florins, which our Commissioners at Amsterdam in a letter of the 27th of...
3747Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 17[–21] March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The monthly Schedules of bonds to be returned to this office were originally stated as a paper of importance. In fact the regular transmission of it is essential to the due course of the operations of the Department. This is the document by which I am enabled to calculate by anticipation the receipts to be expected and consequently to regulate my engagements for disbursements and my measures...
3748Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 11 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been stated to me that bills of the old emissions, expressed to have been issued in pursuance of an Act of Congress of 2d. July 1777, have been presented to the loan officers. As no such resolution of Congress appears on their Journals all bills of that description must be rejected by you as counterfeits. I am, Sir, Your obedt. servant LS , to Nathaniel Appleton, from a private...
3749Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 27 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It having been represented that the number of men heretofore allowed on board of the revenue Cutters has proved to be insufficient, the President of the united States has consented to the full complement of mariners, agreeably to the 7th Section of the act of the 2d of march last, entitled “An Act supplementary to the act intitled An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the...
3750Report 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...