Alexander Hamilton Papers
Documents filtered by: Correspondent="Mathews, John"
sorted by: author
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-11-02-0279

To Alexander Hamilton from John Mathews, 1 May 1792

From John Mathews1

[May 1, 1792. On July 10, 1792, Tench Coxe wrote to Mathews: “I have before me your Letter of the 1st: of May to the Secretary of the Treasury, and I feel great pleasure in observing that the little duty, which has accrued under the Act of March 17912 is likely to be collected without legal compulsion.”3 Letter not found.]

1. Mathews was supervisor of the revenue for the District of Georgia.

2. “An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 199–214 [March 3, 1791]).

3. LC, RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Hamilton Papers
    Title
    To Alexander Hamilton from John Mathews, 1 May 1792
    Author
    Mathews, John
    Recipient
    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    1 May 1792

    Reference

    Cite as
    “To Alexander Hamilton from John Mathews, 1 May 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-11-02-0279. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 11, February 1792 – June 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, p. 350.]