51To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 30 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Certificate of the Sums issuable from the Treasury of the United States for the payment of Interest which was due to the several Creditors on the Books of the Treasury on the 30th September 1793; and to the Trustees for Redemption of the Public Debt for Interest arising to the same Period upon the Stock standing in their names and in the name of Samuel Meredith in...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 1 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 1, 1793. “… As the Sum in Bank is not more than may be required to answer the Current Demand of Interest on the Registered Debt, I request that a Warrant may issue in favour of John Kean Cashier of the Bank of the United States for the Sum of Twenty four thousand Dollars and for which he should be charged and held accountable.” LC , RG 53, Register of the...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 20 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, December 20, 1793. Encloses “the estimates of the Expences of the Civil List and War department for the ensuing year, together with an additional estimate and invalid Pensioners.” LS , RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives. These four MS documents may be found in RG 53, Register of the...
54Report on Estimates for the Year 1794, 21 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives the Estimates herewith sent marked A, B & C. The first relating to the civil list (or the expenditure for the Support of Government during the Year 1794) including the incidental and Contingent expenses of the several Departments and Officers, Amounting to, Dollars 397,201. 6 The second relating to certain...
55Enclosure A: [Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List of the United States for the Year 1794], 20 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List of the United States, Together with the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of the Several Departments and Offices, for the Year 1794. For compensation to the President of the United States 25,000. That of the Vice President 5,000. 30,000. Compensation to the Chief Justice 4,000. do. of five associate Judges, at 3,500 dollars ⅌ annum,...
56Enclosure B: [Estimate for Deficiencies for the Support of the Civil List Establishment], 20 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
An Additional Estimate, for Making Good Deficiencies for the Support of the Civil List Establishment, for Aiding the Fund Appropriated for the Payment of Certain Officers of the Courts, Jurors and Witnesses, for the Support of Light-Houses, and for Other Purposes. To Make Good Deficiencies for the Support of the Civil List for the Year 1793. Extra Clerk hire, in the Office of the Secretary of...
57Enclosure C: [Estimate of Expenses of War Department, 1794], 14 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Estimate of the Expenses of the War Department, for the Year One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety Four. The Legion of the United States Pay. General Staff—to wit. Dollars per Month 1 Major General at 166 1,992. 2 Brigadier-Generals 104 2,496. 1 Major Commandant of Artillery 55 660. 1 Major of Dragoons
58Enclosure D: [Statement of Revenue and Appropriations], 18 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Statement of the Revenue of the United States, and Appropriations Charged Thereon, to the End of the Year 1793. Revenue. Dollars Cents Proceeds of duties on Imports and Tonnage, and of fines, penalties and forfeitures, from the Commencement of the present Government, to the 31st. of December 1791. 6,534,263.84 —of duties on Spirits distilled within the United States for a half year, ending the...
59Enclosure 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
60Enclosure F: [State of Monies Transferred to the United States], 21 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. State of Monies Transferred to the United States, Out of the Proceeds of Foreign Loans Cr Dollars Cents Dollars Cents To this Sum paid to France for the Use of St. Domingo 726,020. By this Sum drawn by the Treasurer on the Commissioners in “ payment to France of 3 Millions of Livres pursuant to an Agreement with M. Ternant 544,500. Dollars Amsterdam Florins 5,649,621.2.8 = 2,305,769.13...
61Enclosure G: [Particular Statement of the Application of 5169 Dollars], 10 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
A Particular Statement of the Application of 5169 Dollars, Granted by an Act Making Certain Appropriations Therein Mentioned, Passed the 28th. of February, 1793, (Included in Appropriation of 1,589,044⁷²⁄₁₀₀ Dollars) for the Purpose of Discharging Such Demands on the United States, Not Otherwise Provided for, As Shall Have Been Ascertained and Admitted, in Due Course of Settlement, at the...
62To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 30 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Certificate of the Sums issuable from the Treasury of the United States for the payment of interest becoming due to the Several Creditors on the Books of the Treasury on the 31st. of December 1793 and to the trustees for the redemption of the Public Debt for Interest arising to the same period upon the Stock Standing in their names and in the name of Samuel...
63To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 27 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a certificate of the sums issuable from the Treasury of the United States for the payment of Interest becoming due to the several creditors on the books of the Treasury on the 31. of March 1794 and to the trustees for the redemption of the Public debt for interest arising to the same period upon the stock standing in their names and in the name of Samuel Meredith in...
64To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 28 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, May 28, 1794. “I … Enclose the papers you directed me to prepare vizt. An Estimate for an additional Appropriation, And A statement of the payments made from the fund of 10.000 Dollars granted by Act of the 26 March 1790 for the Contingent Expences of Government.” LC , RG 53, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives. This...
65Report on Sums for Which a Further Appropriation Is Requisite, [2 June 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives. An Estimate of certain Sums amounting together to Seven hundred and fifteen thousand, Six hundred and ten dollars and 87 Cents, for which a further Appropriation is requisite. The Appropriations already made leave no reliance on any funds for that purpose except those which may arise from such additional...
66Enclosure: Appropriation of Ten Thosand Dollars for the Purpose of Defraying the Contingent Charges of Government, 27 … (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. Cr. 1794. 1793. Januy. 3d. To Warrant No. 3322 in favor of Bartholemew Dandridge being for so much paid by Edward Carrington to Andrew Beedles for carrying a Packet of Dispatches from the President of the United States to Mr. Jefferson, 16th. October 1793 13.33 Decemr. 31. By Balance unexpended as ⅌ certified Account rendered under this date, and lay’d before Congress 8,154.50 Feby. 11....
67To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 12 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Provision having been made by law passed the last Session for the payment of Interest on the unsubscribed or registered debt for the current year, I am to request that the sum of Three Thousand Six hundred and seventy four Dollars, twenty seven cents, may be issued from the Treasury of the United States upon a warrant to be drawn in favor of John Kean Esqr. Cashier of the Bank of the United...
68To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 27 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to enclose a certificate of the sums issuable from the Treasury of the United States for the payment of Interest becoming due to the several creditors on the books of the Treasurey on the 30th June 1794. and to the Trustees for the redemption of the Public debt for Interest arising to the same period upon the Stock standing in their names and in the name of Samuel Meredith in...
69To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 18 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, July 18, 1794. States “that from an examination of my quarter yearly accounts to the 30th June 1794 of the contingent expences of the several offices of the Treasury Department, that the sum of Two Thousand Dollars will be requisite to answer the several demands which may be made between the 1st. July and 30th September next.” LC , RG 53, Register of the...
70To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 29 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Certificate of the sums issueable from the Treasury of the United states for the payment of Interest becoming due to the several creditors on the Books of the Treasury on the 30th September 1794 and to the Trustees for the redemption of the Public debt for Interest arising to the same period upon the stock standing in their names, and in the name of Samuel...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 2 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I would beg leave to intimate that upon an adjustment of the several dividend accounts of the registered debt, the sum of Nineteen thousand and twenty nine dollars ⁵⁷⁄₁₀₀ remained to be issued from the Treasury for payment of interest and arrearages of Interest to the 1st October 1794; but as only a part of the Arrearages will be called for in the course of the present Quarter; I wou’d...
72Enclosure: [Abstract on the Amount of Goods Paying a Duty], [20 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Abstract of the amount of Goods paying a duty of 7½ and 10 per cent. Also the amount of duties upon Coffee, Cocoa and Coal, imported into the United States from the 1st of January 1793, to the 31st of December following. Dollars. Cents. Amount of Goods paying a duty of 7½ per cent. 15,510,183 81 Ditto do. do. of 10 per cent. 4,832,117 01 Amount of duty on Coffee from 1st January to 30th June...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 30 March 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, March 30, 1795. “… I received your esteemed favor of the 18th. Inst, only this morning, and have complied with your request in the foregoing part of this Sheet….” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Nourse enclosed “A General Statement of the Domestic Debt divided amongst the States” ( D , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
74To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 1 April 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the Honor of your Letter a few days since and in compliance with the request therein (the consent of Mr. Wolcott having been obtained) I have now the pleasure to inclose an Official Statement of the public Debt distributed amongst the several States so far as the same can be ascertained. I believe this is in substance a Copy of a Paper wch: was laid before you during your Administration....
75To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Nourse, 23 March 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Altho I never had the honor of a personal Acquaintance with your Excellency, yet as my Patron, the Hon’ R Morris, hath in some measure, by his Letter of the 22d. Instant respecting the Baron D’Arndt, presented me to your knowledge as an Officer under Congress, and presuming in that humanity which hath been shown to our poor Bretheren, confined in the Jails...
76To George Washington from Joseph Nourse, 23 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
As the Secretary is out of Town, I am directed by the Board of War, to transmit to your Excellency two Extracts of the Letter to them referr’d by Congress, from General Schyler dated Albany the 7th Inst., your Excellency being the best judge what measures shou’d be taken, and Orders issued on the occasion; which they leave entirely to you. I am, with the greatest respect Your Excellency’s most...
77To George Washington from Joseph Nourse, 16 January 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Joseph Nourse, 16 Jan. 1778. GW wrote Richard Peters on 24–25 Jan. that he had received a letter “of Mr Nourse of the 16th.”
78To George Washington from Joseph Nourse, 20 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to inform your Excellency that in Consequence of the Resolution of Congress giving The Revd Mr Batwell of Yorktown, the alternative of taking the Oath of Allegiance to the state of Pennsilva. or going into the City of Philada in order to embark with his Family for Europe, that agreable to his choice the Board have given him, a Passport for himself, his Wife, two Children, his...
79To George Washington from Joseph Nourse, 16 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
It being understood by the proposed arrangement for the Treasury Department that a continuation of the Office of Register is intended, I hope I shall be held excusable in your Excellency’s esteem in expressing my wishes to be continued in that Office, and in thus early offering myself to your Notice whenever the nomination and appointment to that Office may come in Form before your Excellency....
80Joseph Nourse to Tobias Lear, 8 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Register’s Office, Treasury of the United States [Philadelphia], 8 Nov. 1790. Forwards for the use of Lear’s office a statement of the accounts of the United States during the administration of Robert Morris as superintendent of finance and statements of Morris’s receipts and expenditures of public monies. LB , DLC:GW . On 10 Feb. 1790 Robert Morris presented a petition to Congress requesting...
81To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 9 October 1801 (Madison Papers)
By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury I am to request that the Estimates of Monies which may be requisite to defray the foreign & domestic Expenditures for the ensuing year in the Department of State, may be formed and transmitted by the 1st. of November for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the Legislature, a General Estimate of Monies for the...
82To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 23 September 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 September 1803, Register’s Office, Treasury Department . Requests that JM furnish the Treasury Department “with the usual Estimates for the Salaries of foreign Agents and all other Expenditures within the Department of State.” Makes this request at the behest of the secretary of the treasury, “who wishes to be prepared early in the approaching Session to lay before Congress the general...
83To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 6 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 October 1804, Treasury Department, Register’s Office. “I beg leave to request that the usual Estimates for the year 1805 may be prepared and transmitted to the Treasury Department, as early as convenient, for the purpose of being laid, by the Secretary of the Treasury before the Legislature of the United States at their ensuing session.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand,...
84To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, [10 April 1805] (Madison Papers)
Statement of the Monies retained by the UStates on Foreign Merchandize exported entitled to Drawback for each of the Years ending 31st December 1801. 1802 and 1803. Years 1801 305443.83 by calculation 1802 153275.45 from Secretary’s report 1803 94096.09 do. do. 3) 552815.37 184,271.79 For part of the above period the additional duties on Mdze imported in foreign Vessels & re-exported...
85To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 24 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joseph Nourse. 24 August 1805, “Treasury Department Register’s Office.” “Upon application to Mr Wagner for information relative to the death of Judge Ker of the Missisippi Territory, I am informed that a letter mentioning that event has been forwarded to you in Philadelphia; permit me therefore to request a Certificate of the time of his decease in order to obtain a Settlement of his...
86To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 3 October 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joseph Nourse. 3 October 1806, Treasury Department, Register’s Office. “I have the honor to apply to you at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the usual Estimates of your Department, of monies to be included in a general Appropriation, for the Services of the ensuing year; for the purpose of being laid before the Legislature of the United States at their ensuing meeting.”...
87To James Madison from Joseph Nourse, 16 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have examined the items of Account presented by Anthony Morris Esq under the head of Contingent Expenses incident to his Mission or Agency to Spain; which, having been of a confidential character, no precedents literally applicable are I understand to be found at the Treasury; but they are all such as are usual in Agencies requiring similar duties to those enjoined on Mr Morris, and are such...
88To 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...
89To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, 5 Nov. 1793. On behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury, he requests an estimate of the sums needed “to defray the Expences of your Department” for 1794 for the purpose of forming a general estimate to be submitted to Congress at its next meeting. FC ( DNA : RG 53, Register’s Estimates and Statements); 1 p.; unsigned; at foot of text: “Honourable Thos....
90To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 24 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having devoted about twenty one Years of my past Life in the Service of the United States in the Treasury Department ; I beg leave to offer the continuance thereof under the Executive of the Government, to which Sir! you have been elected in an accordance with the wishes of the People; and on which occasion, I wou’d beg the acceptance of my best Congratulations, and to assure you of my high...
91To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 25 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith two copies of the receipts & expenditures of the United States for the years 1801 & 1802. I have the honor to be with great respect Sir Your Obedient Servt. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Nourse; at foot of text: “William Burwell Esqr:”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 25 May and “Rects. & expend.” and so recorded in...
92To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 14 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit herewith, two copies of the receipts & expenditures of the United States for the year 1803. I have the honor to be with great respect Sir, Your Obedient humble Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
93To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 9 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg your Permission, to represent, that a circumstance took place last week at a small place about three miles out of the District of about 30 Acres upon which I have a Tenant, who was prevailed upon without my Consent or even knowledge to admit a Meeting of Partizans for Mr Key; the consequence was that at the Meeting of two opposite Parties, there was no small share of abuse, a part of...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 19 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Register of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to the President, two copies of the receipts & expenditures of the United States, for each of the years 1804 & 1805— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
95To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 24 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Upon my return from Pennsylvania yesterday evening I found a Letter from Miss Aitken who succeeded her Father Mr. Robert Aitken many years a valuable Citizen of Philadelphia and considerd a very accurate printer. This Letter I pray you to indulge me in presenting to your Notice, as the Lady who makes the application is of real merit, and has the famely of her Sister a Widow with four Children...