11From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 25, 1792. “Your letter of the 22d instant has been received. My Circular of the 23d will have satisfied you on the point of enquiry.” LS , Yale University Library. Letter not found.
12From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 24 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowledge the receipt of your’s of the 11th. instant. The privileges allowed to Vessels under twenty Tons appear to me in the same light in which they do to you. I should be obliged by your ideas of the most proper arrangement with regard to that description of Vessels; as the thing is perhaps not without difficulties. I have no doubt that the Importer must make entry, as well with regard...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 21 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
From some inadvertence your letter, relative to vessels which put into the district of Newport, was placed among the answered letters, and has therefore lain without due attention. It is the duty of the Collectors of the several districts to pay attention to all vessels arriving within the same by whatever cause they may be led thither. If forty eight hours are likely to elapse after the...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 7 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The case of the Brig Maria has been stated substantially in Conformity with your letter by Captain Stephenson. The following are my Ideas on the subject The Cap⟨t.⟩ Stephenson on entering the Vessel deposited his Register with you as usual, and if he clears out & applies to you for the Register again in order to depart, it is in the ordinary Course of business that you deliver it to him, with...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 30 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
By an act of the last Session, provision is made for the payment of pensions to Invalids, for the space of one year from the fourth of march last, under such regulations, as the President should prescribe. The President having signified to me his pleasure, that the business in your state may be committed to your management; it remains for me to direct the necessary provision. I am therefore to...
16From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 17 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I perceive by your Letter of the 4th instant that I misapprehended you in respect to the question referred to in Your Letter of the 26th of September. I thought it related to the going from one port to another to deliver the inward Cargo which certainly cannot be done without previously paying or securing the Duties at the first port. But there is clearly no color for the idea that foreign...
17From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 19 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 19, 1790. “In one of your late letters you mention Mr. George House as a Candidate for the command of a Cutter. The President having made his appointment, it becomes a question whether Mr. House will serve in the station of first Mate the Emoluments of which you will see by the law—also whether any better qualified person presents for that place. You inform me...
18From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 24 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 3d. instant together with the contract for supplying the light house therein enclosed. I fear it will be difficult for the President to form an opinion of this agreement for want of the particulars. The quantities and prices of the requisite articles would afford better ground on which to judge; and I therefore request that you will endeavour to have the...
19From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 21 April 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Herewith you have Copy of the Act for the establishment and support of lighthouses beacons, bouys and public piers. Amongst other things contained in it you will perceive that it is made the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by Contracts to be approved by the President of the United States for rebuilding when necessary and keeping in repair the Lighthouses, beacons, buoys &...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is certainly incumbent upon every master of a vessel to make report to the Collector of any district, into which he may go for whatever cause, within twenty four hours, and (if the vessel should remain so long in the district) to make an entry. The officers of the customs who do the duty consequently become entitled to a compensation. It is not however extraordinary that another opinion...