51Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 18 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You will have perceived by the Act of the last session, entitled an Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States, that after the end of the present month the duties on distilled spirits are regulated according to certain classes of proof, to be determined by Dycas’s Hydrometer. Doubting whether it might be convenient to the several officers of the Customs to...
52Report on Appropriations of Money for Certain Purposes, [6 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives, the Estimates herewith transmitted, No. 1, 2, 3 and 4. The first relating to the Civil List, or the Expenditure for the support of Government, during the year 1791, amounting to Dollars 299.276.53. The second exhibiting some additional objects of expenditure...
53Report on Duties Arising on Tonnage, for the Year Ending September 30, 1790, [6 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that prior to the receipt of the order of the House of Representatives of the 30th. ultimo, the formation of several returns of the nature of those designated in their resolution, had been commenced at the Treasury. It had been deemed expedient to make them up, so as to include the space of one year, in order that they might exhibit the annual course of that...
54Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 11 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 11, 1791. On January 26, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your circular favour of 11 instant is recd.” Circular not found. ]
55Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 11 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been stated to me that bills of the old emissions, expressed to have been issued in pursuance of an Act of Congress of 2d. July 1777, have been presented to the loan officers. As no such resolution of Congress appears on their Journals all bills of that description must be rejected by you as counterfeits. I am, Sir, Your obedt. servant LS , to Nathaniel Appleton, from a private...
56Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 14 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is necessary to the adjustment of the public accounts, that the officers of the Treasury should be informed what sums in final settlement certificates were paid over to the several states by the agents for settling the accounts of their respective lines in the late army. The statements of those agents are the only documents on the subject of which the United States are possessed, and it...
57Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 14 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to forward to you drafts payable to you or your order for the Sum of fifty thousand Dollars. These Drafts will be transmitted to you with blanks for the Direction of each as the case may require, and may be filled up either with the name of Tench Francis Esquire, Cashier of the Bank of North America, or with that of William Seton Esquire,...
58Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 5 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The arrangements towards the payment of the ensuing Quarters interest to the public Creditors within your state require that the Commissioner of Loans for your state should be advised by every opportunity of the monies in your hands. This you will not fail to do by every post, & even by every private opportunity which shall present. I shall count on your punctuality. You will also pay to the...
59Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 9 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Comptroller of the Treasury being prevented by sickness from executing the duties of his Office I have found it necessary to instruct Mr. Joseph Hardy his first Clerk, to sign all such papers as are requisite to transfer Stock from one Loan Office to another, and to and from the Books of the Treasury. You will therefore proceed upon warrants signed by me and counter signed by him, as if...
60Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 17 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been represented to me by the officers of this department, that some of the Commissioners of Loans, who have received on loan certificates of the Register of the Treasury, have issued new loan certificates therefor, without a previous transmission of them to the Treasury for examination. You will find by a recurrence to the circular letter of the 16th September, that it is therein...