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From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 6 August 1792

To Benjamin Lincoln

Treasury Department
August 6. 1792.

Sir

You were perfectly right in making the seizure, announced in your letter of the 26th Ultimo.

I do not see that any thing can be done in respect to the Drawback you mention. No payment on that account can be made until the requisite evidence is produced; and there might be circumstances which would altogether preclude the possibility of producing that evidence.

Benjamin Lincoln Esqr.
Collector Boston.

L[S], RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury, 1789–1818 (vol. unnumbered), National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 6 August 1792
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Lincoln, Benjamin
    Date
    6 August 1792

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 6 August 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0134. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 12, July 1792 – October 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, p. 169.]

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