1I. First State of the Report on Commerce, [before 23 August 1793–after 13 April 1794] (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom was referred by the house of Representatives the Report of a committee on the written message of the President of the U.S. of the 14th. of Feb. 1791. with instruction to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the U.S. with foreign nations, and the measures which he should think proper to be...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [23–24 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
It is not yet finally determined that there shall be a publication & there has been some difference of opinion on the point. But it seems to me the publication of the letters renders it indispensable, that the whole story should be told. Yet when it appears, it will probably include only what is regularly official, so that the present question may be pursued independently. Perhaps you will not...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, [23 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Be so good as to let me know whether a person has been engaged for the purpose we conversed about yesterday Morning. Yr. very obed servant ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Hazlehurst was a Philadelphia merchant. H had asked Hazlehurst to arrange for a ship to carry dispatches to Gouverneur Morris ( H to Hazelhurst, December 26, 1793 ). On August 15, 1793, the cabinet...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Hazlehurst, 23 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 23, 1793. On the cover of a letter from Hamilton, dated August 23, 1793, Hazlehurst wrote: “recd. & ansd. the same day.” Letter not found. ]
5No Jacobin No. VII, 23 August [1793] (Hamilton Papers)
For the American Daily Advertiser. One of the earliest exploits which distinguished the career of Mr. Genet, after his arrival in this city, was the placing himself at the head of a political club. The public papers have announced him member of the Society of the Friends to Liberty and Equality , and private report assigning to him the Presidential Chair, does full credit to his exertions to...
6From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President a communication from the Commissioner of the revenue relating to contracts for the stakage of the shoals and channels of No. Carolina. He agrees in opinion with the Commissioner that it will be expedient to refuse No. 1. and ratify the others. It may even be better in the end, if a more eligible contract cannot be effected,...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 23 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to submit to your consideration, a draft of a Letter to the Contractors of the Army, respecting the payment of Subsistence to Officers—and a proposal for an alteration in the form of the Abstract of Rations issued, which will be particularly necessary in case the proposed arrangement is adopted. It has occurred as a question whether the third section of the Act making...
8To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 23 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
When you did me the honour to appoint me to the Office of Marshall of the Pennsylvania District, there was a prospect of its being at some time beneficial to me and I have ever held myself under the greatest Obligation to you for the Confidence placed in me by that Appointment, but I found that the Arrangements of the Judiciary System were such as would not compensate the marshalls for the...
9Cabinet Opinion on the Recall of Edmond Genet, 23 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
At meetings of the heads of departments & the Attorney General at the President’s on the 1st & 2d of Aug. 1793. On a review of the whole of mister Genet’s correspondence & conduct, it was unanimously agreed that a letter should be written to the Minister of the U.S. at Paris, stating the same to him, resuming the points of difference which had arisen between the government of the U.S. & mister...
10To George Washington from Joshua Clayton, 23 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Joshua Clayton, 23 Aug. 1793 (first letter). According to GW’s executive journal for 26 Aug. 1793, GW received a letter “from the Gov. of Delaware dated 23d informing that the prize from Ireland, made by the Little Democrat & Carmagnole & sent to New Castle, had the passengers (exceeding 400) detained on board by the authority of those vessels until all the B—h Goods on...