51To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you a letter received a last Evening from the Supervisor of Pennsylvania, upon a subject extremely painful in a public and private view. On my expressing to him some time ago my wishes that the returns from that district might be brought forward he observed, that he was apprehensive Mr. Collins would not prove a very regular official Man; and he very lately...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 18 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 18, 1792. Encloses “an account of Abraham Hargis the Contractor for sinking and completing the well at the Cape Henlopen or Delaware light House.” Discusses the terms of the contract and compares it with the contract for the repair of the lighthouse at Cape Henry in Virginia. Discusses the compensation of the keeper of the Portland lighthouse. LC ,...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 21 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 21, 1792. Discusses rearrangement of revenue surveys and compensation for revenue officers in North Carolina. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. See Coxe to H, December 13, 1792 .
54To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 28, 1792. “In … the Communication from the Secretary of the President of the United States to you relative to the appointment of Lemuel Cornick to the duty of Keeper of the light House, I observe no mention is made of the Compensation which is intended to be allowed. It is necessary that the pleasure of the President on that point be known.” LC ,...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 31, 1792. “The Superintendent of the Establishments on Delaware has occasion for about four hundred and fifteen Dollars to discharge all the balances falling due this day in that part of the public service. I have to ask the favor of a Warrant to him for that Sum.…” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives....
56To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to represent to you that considerable Inconvenience occurs in the execution of a part of the business of this office, which however may be remedied by placing a limited sum of the Monies appropriated for the Establishments connected with navigation in the hands of the Commissioner of the Revenue for which he will be charged and held accountable. The inconveniencies arise from...
57To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 2 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 2, 1793. “I have the honor to inclose to you for the purpose of submission to the President, three Contracts Made by the Collector of the District of Washington in North Carolina for the stakeage of all the shoals, sounds &c. within that state and North of the District of Wilmington, which have heretofore been staked.… I have only to observe that as...
58To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you an authenticated copy of an Act of the legislature of New York received this day from Mr. Lawrence, one of the Representatives in Congress from that State. I have to observe on this Act that the reservation of Jurisdiction contained in the proviso appears to be inconsistent with the intention of the last clause but one of the 8th. Section of the 1st. Article...
59To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In compliance with the direction in your letter of the 2d. instant, I have the honor to inform you that the following persons are employed in this office. William Barton, principal Clerk at 800 Dollars ⅌ Annm. John Mease Clerk at 400. Peter Footman do. at 400 Ezekiel Forman do. at 400 Michael Gitts, Messenger & Office keeper
60To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 4, 1793. “I have the honor to inform you that on the receipt of Mr. J. N. Cummings’s letter to you relative to the case of Mathias Brewer, I wrote to him for information on certain points, which appeared necessary. I desired him to communicate the same, with a general State of the Case, to the Supervisor.… I am in daily expectation of the papers and...