To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 21 January 1793
From Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia] January 21, 1793. “By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, three contracts made by the Collector of Washington in North Carolina for the stakeage of the shoals, sounds &c. in that State;1 which contracts are ratified by the President.”
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.