1From Alexander Hamilton to James Taylor and Abishai Thomas, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 18th. and 28th. instant as agents for the state of North Carolina. Altho the laws relative to the payment of the invalid pensioners fully authorize the payment of the money to those individuals, I do not consider them as warranting a payment to the State of North Carolina whose Executive appears to have discharged a part of the demands...
2From Alexander Hamilton to James Taylor and Abishai Thomas, 3 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The measures taken to ascertain the fact, whether the State of North Carolina has ever issued its own certificates in lieu of those of the United States not yet having produced the desired information, as inconveniences would arise from longer delay of a determination of the question which arises on the eighteenth section of the Act making provision for the debt of the United States. I take...