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Enclosure A: Statement of the Domestic Debt of the United States on 31 December 1794, 9 January 1795

A
Statement of the Domestic Debt of the United States on December 31st. 1794.
Amount of
principal
of Unfunded
debt		 6 ⅌ Ct.
Stock		 Deferred
Stock		 3 ⅌ Ct.
Stock		 Total
amount
dollars Cents dollars Cents dollars Cents dollars Cents dollars Cents
Funded Domestic Debt exclusive of balances due to Creditor States & the amount of said Stock which has been purchased or redeemed on the last day of December 1794 17,912,138 01 8,538,228 97 12,275,347 55 38,725,714 53
Funded Domestic Debt to the Credit of States, in pursuance of the Act of Congress of May 31st. 1794138 2,345,056 1,172,528 703,516 80 4,221,100 80
Funded Domestic Debt purchased & redeemed to the last of December 1794 668,700 38 752,190 64 415,415 66 1,836,306 68
Total of Funded Domestic Debt 20,925,894 39 10,462,947 61 13,394,280 01
Funded Assumed Debt exclusive of what had been purchased or redeemed on the last day of December 1794 7,908,374 19 3,940,608 96 5,994,115 70 17,843,098 85
Funded Assumed Debt which had been purchased or redeemed on the last day of December 1794 212,462 04 119,808 88 96,444 97 428,715 89
Total of Funded Assumed Debt 8,120,836 23 4,060,417 84 6,090,560 67
Total of Funded Domestic Debt on the last day of December 1794 29,046,730 62 14,523,365 45 19,484,840 68 63,054,936 75139
Debt due to Foreign Officers,140 for the payment of which provision has been made & which will pass to the Credit of the sinking Fund
 
Principal being 186,988.23
Interest from January 1, 1788 to
December 31, 1790		 22438.58 186,988 23 22,438 58 209,426 81
Registered Debt on the Books of the Treasury on which Dividends have been made 167,816 40 111,877 60 55.938 80 30,806 95 198,623 35
Ditto on which no Dividends have been made 42,231 69 28,154 46 14,077 23 17,737 31 59,969
Ditto on the Books of Loan Offices 4,394 85 2,929 90 1,464 95 2,039 35 6,434 20
Credits on the Books of the Treasury 44,920 95 29,947 30 14,973 65 11,925 64 56,846 59
Loan Office Certificates bearing Intt. on a Capital of 43,500 dolls. the specie value being no more than 27,935 18,623 34 9,311 66 7,830 35,765
Loan Office Certificates bearing Interest on the Specie Value 305,859 51 203.906 34 101,953 17 55,054 71 360.914 22
Final settlement Certificates payable to Bearer, of all kinds 126,091 84,060 67 42.030 33 22,696 38 148.787 38
Indents of Interest of all kinds 83,805 83,805 83,805
Unliquidated claims as estimated 381,269 254,179 34 127,089 66 228,761 40 610,030 40
Estimated amount of the Domestic Debt at the
close of 1794 & of the Stock which will be produced
when the whole Debt has been Funded		 }
1,184,323 40 29,957,397 80 14,890,204 90 19,967,936 64,825,538 70

Comptroller’s Office January 9th. 1795. Oliv Wolcott Compr

138. “An Act making provision for the payment of the interest on the balances due to certain States, upon a final settlement of the accounts between the United States and the Individual States” (1 Stat. 371).

139. In the Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress, is a “Statement of the Funded Debt on December 31st 1794,” which is dated “Comptroller’s office January 5: 1795.” H’s figures up to this point have been taken from this statement.

140. See note 87.

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    “Enclosure A: Statement of the Domestic Debt of the United States on 31 December 1794, 9 January 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0052-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, pp. 130–131.]