1Executive Order, 15 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Arrangement made by the President of the United States, with respect to the subdivisions of the several Districts thereof into Surveys, the appointment of Officers, and the assignment of compensations, pursuant to the Act of Congress passed the 3d day of March 1791, entitled “An Act repealing after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from...
2From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 15 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
By Virtue of the several Acts, the one entitled “An Act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States and for making further provision for the protection of the frontiers,” and the other entitled “An Act making an appropriation for the Purpose therein mentioned,” I do hereby authorise and empower you by yourself or any other person or persons to...
3To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 15 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be accompanied by a weekly return of Cash, and by a Certificate of Registry No. 5 dated Jany. 22. 1790, granted by the Collector of Dighton, and delivered up on account of the transfer of property, and also the copy of an Endorsment of an Enrollment of the change of Master said Enrollment being No. 11 and issued from this office. Yesterday arrived here a Schooner named the Charming...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Henshaw, 15 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Northampton [ Massachusetts ] March 15, 1791 . Asks to be appointed inspector of revenue in Massachusetts. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Henshaw had served as state collector of customs at Boston in the seventeen-eighties.
5To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [15 March 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
By Virtue of the several Acts, the one entitled “An Act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States and for making further provision for the protection of the frontiers,” and the other entitled “An Act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned,” I do hereby authorise and empower you by yourself or any other person or persons to...
6II. The Secretary of State to David Humphreys, 15 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters No. 1. to 6. from England, No. 7. 8. from Lisbon and No. 9. from Madrid are all recieved. The President has nominated you minister Resident for the U. S. of America at the court of Lisbon, which was approved by the Senate. You will consequently recieve herewith your Commission, a letter of credence to the Queen, sealed, and an open copy of it for your own information, and a letter...
7From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 15 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Having thought fit, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Act intitled “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 & also upon spirits distilled within the United States and for appropriating the same” to divide the United States into the following fourteen districts namely one to...
8To George Washington from La Luzerne, 15 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Quoi que depuis longtemps je n’aye pas eu l’honneur de me rapeller aux bontés de votre excellence, je le prie detre bien persuadée que je n’ai pas eté moins occupée de sa gloire et de ses succés et que c’est avec un grand plaisir que je vois la confiance et la consideration des etats unis, selever tous les jours d’avantage dans tous les pays de leurope, les gens qui comme moi ont eu le bonheur...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 15 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find under this cover a letter of particular importance to this department, the business of which will I doubt not receive your early attention. I am, Sir, Your Obedient servant LS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. William Lewis to Harison, March 14, 1791 ( ALS , New-York Historical Society). In this letter, Lewis, United States attorney for the District of Pennsylvania,...
10To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jones, Brockholst Livingston, and John H. Livingston, 15 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 15, 1791. “Mr. Philip Henry Livingston of this City together with his Father in law Walter Livingston having assumed certain debts due from us as administrators on the estate of the late Philip Livingston deceased, we have agreed to execute to him an assignment of his Father’s bonds & mortgage to our Testator. To perfect this Assignment we are advised that it is essential that...