4171Report on the Petition of William Smith, [28 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of William Smith of Baltimore Town in the State of Maryland, respectfully submits the following Report: The resolutions of the United States in Congress assembled, which respect the issuing of the Certificates commonly called Loan Office Certificates, make it necessary, that they should be previously countersigned by certain...
4172To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Smith, 28 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The amount of Stock on the books of this office subject to Interest for the Quarter ending the 31st March 1792 is as follows Viz. Amot. of 6 ⅌ Ct. Funded Stock 4201.79 Interest from the 1st Octr. 1791. 126. 5 Amot. of Ditto 1203686.55 Interest on Do. from Jany. 1. 1792 18055.29 Amot. of 3 ⅌ Ct. Stock 361.55 Interest on Do. from Octr. 1. 1791 5.42 Amot. of Do 582,824.25 Intt on do from Jany 1....
4173From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 28 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
An uncommon press of business has prevented my thanking you sooner for your private letter of the . Your ideas of the manner of conducting a certain business have a remarkable correspondency with my own. I think one might venture to ensure success, humanly speaking, on such a plan, and every other will be precarious and critical. I flatter myself the general principles of it will govern future...
4174From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Low, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 29, 1792 . On April 10, 1792, Low wrote to Hamilton : “I am duely favord with yours of 23. 29 & 31 Ulto.” Letter of March 29 not found.]
4175From Alexander Hamilton to John Miller, Junior, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 29, 1792 . “I am desirous to avail the United States of your knowledge of the various species of Merchandize … for the Infantry and Cavalry of the United States, which are to be furnished, by contract, by Messrs Charles Young and Thomas Billington.…” Copy, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 3269, National Archives. Miller was a...
4176From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 29, 1792 . “There is due to William Peck, Marshall for the District of Rhode Island upon a settlement made at the Treasury, the sum of two thousand, one hundred & five Dollars and twelve Cents, which sum I request you will pay to the said Marshall.… This transaction is of course not to be brought into your accounts, but merely to be noted at foot of your weekly...
4177From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 22d instant, and am extremely sorry to perceive the difficulties you mention. It is not in my power to authorise your dispensing with the execution of the laws, as explained by your standing instructions from the Treasury; but as I have always a desire to give every convenient and prudent facility to commerce, I have made an eventual engagement to the Bank of...
4178To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
On examining the subsisting contracts, between the United States, and the Government of France, and the Farmers General and a comparison thereof with the foreign accounts and documents transmitted to the Treasury the following facts appear. That previous to the Treaty of February 1778, the sum of Three millions of Livres had been advanced by the government of France, to the agents of the...
4179From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 30 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 30, 1792 . Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found .] LS , sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, May 12, 1947, Lot 258.
4180From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 30 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
As it will be convenient to you to be apprized of the alterations in the business of the Treasury, which take place from time to time in consequence of arrangements with the Bank of the united States, I think it expedient to inform you, that the receipt and exchange for Specie of the Bank notes and Cash notes of the Institution over which you preside, will be discontinued in the Custom houses...
4181Conversation with George Hammond, [31 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of the information and instructions, contained in your Lordship’s dispatch No 2, I waited upon Mr Hamilton on Saturday last, and, in the course of a general conversation on several matters, I took occasion to enquire of him, as if accidentally, whether the object of the commission, assigned to Messrs Short and Carmichael, was really such as it had been publicly stated to be;...
4182To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 31 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
As you have often expressed a wish to establish uniformity among all the officers commissioned in different districts to perform similar duties I am induced to mention an instance wherein from the want of similarity questions arise which leaves us quite at a loss how to determine the length of Vessels from the registers some inserting therein the real length & some the length after the...
4183From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Low, 31 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 31, 1792 . On April 10, 1792, Low wrote to Hamilton : “I am duely favord with yours of 23. 29 & 31 Ulto.” Letter of March 31 not found .]
4184From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March, 1792 .] Sends list of names of persons recommended for positions of director of the Mint and treasurer of the Mint. AD , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. On verso H wrote: “Names which have occurred as for Director or Treasurer.” There are forty names in this list arranged by states. On April 13, 1792, Washington nominated David Rittenhouse of Pennsylvania...
4185To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 2 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] April 2, 1792 . “This letter will be accompanied by a weekly return of monies received and paid … and also a Statement of the case of the Brig Chance, and papers respectg. the same. I shall refrain from prosecuting Capt. Corey.” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. The brig Chance was owned by John Innis Clarke and Joseph Nightingale, Providence...
4186To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, 2 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Frenchman’s Bay [ District of Maine ] April 2, 1792 . “… The difficult situation of this District of which I have already informed you has obliged my purchasing a small Boat.…” LC , RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Gloucester, Machias, and Frenchman’s Bay, National Archives. Jordan was collector of customs at Frenchman’s Bay, District of Maine. See Jordan to H, July 1, 1791 .
4187From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Keais, 2 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 2, 1792 . On April 26, 1792, Keais wrote to Hamilton : “I this Day was Honored with the Receipt of your Letter of the 2nd Instant Covering A Commission … as Inspector of the Revenue for this port.” Letter not found .] Keais was collector of customs for the port of Washington, North Carolina, and superintendent of stakage in Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
4188From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Livingston, 2 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you for sending by express the Chief Justice’s Letter. It will enable me to enter the Market more advantageously for the support of the Debt. I detained the express ’till today, in expectation of being able to forward by him the result. But certain indispensable engagements of some of the Trustees prevent a Meeting ’till tomorrow. The arrangement will be conveyed by express. I observe...
4189From Alexander Hamilton to William Short, 2 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am to acknowlege the receipt of your several letters of the 22d of November 23d 28th and 30th of December. The accomplishment, thus early, of a loan at 4 per Cent exceeds expectation as much as it does credit to your exertions. The intelligence of it was received with great satisfaction by the President as well as by myself, and has given no small pleasure to the public at large. You will...
4190To Alexander Hamilton from James Reynolds, 3 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I hope you will pardon me in taking the liberty I do In troubling you so offen. it hurts me to let you Know my Setivation. I should take it as a protickeler if you will Oblige me with the loane of about thirty Dollars. I am in hopes in a fue days I shall be In a more better Setivation. and then I shall Be able to make you ample Satisfaction for your Favours shewn me. I want it for some little...
4191Enclosure: Receipt from James Reynolds, [3 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Received philadelphia 3d. April. 1792 of Alexander Hamilton Esqr. Ninety dollars which I promise to pay on demand 90, Dollars
4192From Alexander Hamilton to James Brice, 4 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I was duly honored with your letter relative to the arrears of pay due to sundry Officers and Soldiers of the Maryland line of the late Army. The payments of arrears due to the lines of Virginia and North Carolina were made in the States under the special injunction of an Act of Congress which did not extend to Maryland or any other State. This circumstance will prevent the allowance of any...
4193From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Keais, 4 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 4, 1792 . On April 26, 1792, Keais wrote to Hamilton : “I this Day was Honored with the Receipt of your Letter … of the 4th.” Letter not found .]
4194From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 4 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The post of this day brought me a letter from you. I am pained, beyond expression, at the picture you and others give me of the situation of my fellow Citizens—especially as an ignorance of the extent of the disorder renders it impossible to judge whether any adequate remedy can be applied. You may apply another 50 000 Dollars to purchases at such time as you judge it can be rendered most...
4195From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President of the United States. He was informed yesterday, by the Attorney General, that his opinion concerning the constitutionality of the Representation Bill was desired this morning. He now sends it with his reasons but more imperfectly stated than he could have wished—through want of time. He has never seen the bill, but from the...
4196From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Howell, Junior, 5 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, April 5, 1792 . The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “Requesting that certified payrolls of the balances due the officers of the Maryland line be furnished him.” Letter not found .] LS , sold by Stan V. Henkels, Jr., June 27, 1927, Lot 133. For background to this letter, see James Brice to H, March 19, 1792 ; H to Brice, April 4, 1792 . Howell was...
4197To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Moylan, 5 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, April 5, 1792 . “I will not take up your time for the trouble I am about to give by apologizing for it.… I never received my commutation certificate the reasons are, first I was under a necessity of living very retired since the peace the Limitation Act never came to my Knowledge until May 89 when I went to New York—the other is, an impossibility of my being able to close my...
4198Report on Compensation of Officers Employed in the Collection of the Revenue, [5 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 18th of January, 1791, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report his opinion whether any and what farther compensation ought to be made to the respective Officers employed in the collection of the revenue, The said Secretary respectfully submits the following Report. The paper marked (A) herewith transmitted, contains an...
4199Enclosure A: [Emoluments of Surveyors of the Customs for the Year 1790], [5 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Ports Amount received. Clerk hire charged Rent, Fuel, Stationery &c Nett amount of Emoluments. Salary allowed by the Collection law. Additional Salaries proposed. Portsmouth 344.96 60.
4200Enclosure: [Emoluments of Collectors of the Customs for the Year 1790], [5 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Additional Salaries proposed Ports Amount received. Clerk-hire charged. Rent, Fuel Stationery &c. Nett amount of Emoluments. Annual Salary allowed by the Collection law Annual Salary. Percentage on duties