21Enclosure C: [Estimate of Balances upon Appropriations for 1791], [3 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The following sums may probably be deemed as Balances upon the Appropriations for the Year 1791. Vizt: On the Appropriation of 299.276. ⁵³⁄₁₀₀ Drs. Dollars. Judiciary—Pennsylvania by the Death of Francis Hopkinson .289.49 Congress. after paying the Members of Senate & House of Representatives, secy. Clerks &ca. to 31st. Decr. 1791 } 34.396.12 Treasury Department, comprising the secretarys,...
22Report on Additional Appropriations, [13–16 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives, an Estimate of certain Sums, amounting together to thirty four thousand four hundred and ninety seven dollars, ninety Cents, for which an appropriation is requisite, in addition to the provisions heretofore made. The funds in the power of the legislature, for this purpose, are the surplus of the duties on...
23To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 1 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the several papers, upon which I have attempted to form a Conjectural Estimate of the Monies due to the War Department for the year 1791. A. Estimate of the Rations issued by the Contractors 1791. with subordinate vouchers No. 1 a 11— B. do. at Brunswick, Philadelphia, Carlisle and other places on the Rout to Fort Pitt together with the probable Expence of...
24To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 11 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a list of the Clerks engaged in this Office, with a note of the Objects on which they were employd and the Rate of their respective Compensations. Being with the greatest Respect Sir Your mo: ob: hb: Servt. ALS , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1792, Vol. “134-T,” National Archives.
25To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 17 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, August 17, 1792. States that William Banks, a clerk in the register’s office, “has suggested the following particulars for the notice of the Secretary: 1st. That the Records of Tonage would be kept more compleat, if the collectors were directed to transmit the cancell’d Registers and Emolements Monthly instead of Quarterly. 2d. That there is a defect in...
26To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 24 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, August 24, 1792. “I have carefully looked over the Journals of the late Congress and have therefrom selected their several Proceedings which relate to Indents.” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; LC , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1792, Vol. “134-T,” National Archives. This enclosure is entitled “References to the...
27To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 24 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose an abstract statement of the debt incurred by the late government, and which has been paid off from the funds of the present government, amounting to one million eight hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars forty-two cents; but this sum will be encreased, when the balance of three hundred and ninety-seven thousand twenty-four dollars...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 9 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose certifyd Copies from the Treasury Books of an Acct. depending betwixt His Mo: Catholic Majesty and the United States, for Monies recd. on Loan. I cannot find that this Loan has been recognized on the Journals of Congress in a like Manner with the french and Dutch Loans. It is founded on a settlemt made by the late Comr. for settling the foreign Accts. entitled Loans...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 12 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, 12 Oct. 1792. In conformity with a request from the Secretary of the Treasury for estimates of appropriations to be made by the United States for 1793, he asks for an estimate of the sums needed by “your Departmt.” for submission to Congress at its next meeting. FC ( DNA : RG 53, Register’s Estimates and Statements); 1 p.; circular letter sent to TJ and...
30To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 27 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In the returns from the Treasury Dept. which will be laid before you in pursuance of your Directions founded on the order of the Senate of the United States of May 7. 1792 there will be wanting an Account of the Contingent Expences of the Treasury Department, for Wood, rent and other payment, which have not been considered as forming a Part of the Expence of any particular Office, but which...