7861From Alexander Hamilton to George Gale, 20 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to remit to you draughts on John Muir, Collector of Vienna Maryland to the amount of four thousand dollars. As this gentleman however has not been altogether regular in his transactions, I am not willing that the Credit of the United States should be hazarded by a negociation of the bills. I have therefore to request that you will employ some...
7862From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 20 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 20, 1794. On January 5, 1795, Schuyler acknowledged receipt of Hamilton’s “favor of the 20th Ult.” Letter not found. ] Schuyler was H’s father-in-law.
7863To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 22 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the honor to receive this day the order of the House of Representatives relative to the measures that have been adopted concerning the naval armament, in your letter of the 20th. instant. It was on the 4th. day of April that a participation with you in the Treasury business for the War Department was committed to this office. After the requisite examination into the objects to be...
7864Conversation with George Hammond, [23 December 1794–5 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Although I have had no reason to suspect, that this government has ever deviated from the resolution, which I have formerly attributed to it, of declining to enter into any political connexion with Sweden and Denmark, I have nevertheless, since the receipt of your Lordship’s last instructions, renewed my enquiries upon the subject, in an incidental conversation with Mr. Hamilton, from whom I...
7865To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 23, 1794. In answer to “enquiries … made by a committee of the house of Representatives relative to the clerks in the public offices,” lists the clerks in his office, their duties, and their compensations. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives. On December 17, 1794, the House of Representatives appointed a...
7866To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 23, 1794. “I have the honor of sending to you, herewith, two commissions for officers, designated as ‘Supervisors of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania &ca.’ It appears to me, that a question may arise, with respect to the validity of Official Acts performed by those Supervisors, by reason of the Stile of the designation of their...
7867From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 23, 1794. “I send you a letter this moment received from the Commissioner of the Revenue, dated yesterday which contains the answer to your letter founded upon the order of the House of Representatives relative to the measures which have been adopted concerning the naval armament.” Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of War, Third Congress, National Archives....
7868From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Purviance, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Messrs. Zacharie Coopman & Co. of Baltimore have represented to me, that you have said, that unless the principal of their Bonds lately put in Suit should be speedily discharged, you will discontinue the granting to them the customary credit on the duties arising from importations. It being my wish however to allow them a further indulgence, I have to request that you will continue to conform...
7869To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Director of the Mint being of opinion, that it may be advantageous to contract for the fifty tons of Copper, offered by the Schuyler Copper Mine Company to be delivered by the last of May next, I must request you to obtain information whether the contract can be punctually fulfilled. In that case, I shall get the favor of you to enter into an engagement in behalf of the United States, at a...
7870From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The present state & prospects of the Treasury render it necessary, without delay, to exercise the power vested in the President by the act passed the 18 instant, intitled “an act authorizing a Loan of two millions of Dollars.” To enable him to determine this a probable view of receipts & expenditures distributed quarter yearly is herewith presented, and the form of a power as usual to The...
7871Enclosure: View of Probable State of the Treasury, [December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Jany. 1. Cash in Command of the Treasury 600.000. Deficiency 1.265.000. 1.865.000. April 1. Receipts from Imports & tonnage ⅌ returns received, nearly 900.000. ⅌ Estimate on cases not returned 500.000. ⅌ Estimate on account of internal duties 150.000. Deficiency 2.315.000. 3.865.000 . July 1. Receipts from Imports & tonnage
7872From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to you an account between the Collector of New York, and the United States, which has been adjusted at the Treasury, and a balance of Dolls. 1533. ⁸⁹⁄₁₀₀. stated to be due to the said Collector. As all claims of a similar nature with the foregoing have been hitherto paid out of the Fund destined to defray the Contingent Charges of Government, I have deemed...
7873From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 24 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 24, 1794. On December 25–27, 1794, Coxe wrote to Hamilton : “I have Just received your letter of the 24th istant.” Letter not found. ]
7874To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Moylan, 24 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] December 24, 1794 . “The Amount of interest on Stock remaining on the books of this office for the quarter ending the 31st Instant is 18963. dollars 44. Cents 8 Mills for which sum you will please to issue a Warrant.” LC , RG 217, First Comptroller’s Office, Pennsylvania Loan Office, Letter Book “A,” National Archives; LC , RG 53, Pennsylvania State Loan Office, Letter Book,...
7875To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [24 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
For carrying into execution the provisions of the Act of the 18 day of this present month, whereby the President of the Ud. States is authorised & empowered to borrow a certain sum of money on the credit of the United States. I do hereby authorize you the said Secretary of the Treasury, in the name and on the credit of the said United States, to borrow of the Bank of the United States, or of...
7876To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 25[–27] December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have Just received your letter of the 24th instant with the papers from the President of the U: S: and the letter of the Secretary at War contained in the same enclosure. It is proper for me to remind You that the arrangement which was made for procuring the timber for the Frigates, was the result of our United Judgments founded upon enquiry & consideration, that the appointments of the...
7877From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 25 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 25, 1794. On December 26, 1794, Coxe wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your letter of the 25th. inst: relative to anchors.” Letter not found. ]
7878From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed are the copies of two Acts one of Congress authorising The President to borrow two millions of Dollars another of the President authorising me to carry that act into effect. The extensive payments becoming due to the Bank of the UStates added to the large demands for the current service oblige me to ask of the Bank the loan of the whole sum. The expence of suppressing the late...
7879From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 26, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Asking for an extension of a loan to Treasury.” Letter not found. ] AL , sold at Anderson Galleries, February 3, 1909, Lot 170. See H to Joseph Ball, December 28, 1794 .
7880To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been favored with yours of the 19th. Instant covering your private letter of the same date to Governor Lee. I hear he has left Winchester, & will probably be here tomorrow or next day, and have thought it best to keep his letter until his arrival. The explanations contained in this letter to him, are such as I had anticipated, as you might have perceived from mine to you of the 11th....
7881To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “I have received your letter of the 25th. inst: relative to anchors. You will find my letter of the 25th June, the highest supposed prices &c. of the anchors, and in mine of the 8th. inst. you will find the particular anchors yet wanted.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of...
7882To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “It is with extreme concern that I enclose to you a letter of a very improper tenor indeed, from Messr. Nicholas Hoffman & Co. at New York, to Tench Francis Esqr. dated on the 22d instant, and this day received by me from the hands of Mr. Francis.…” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the...
7883To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “Enclosed is a copy of a letter from T: Francis Esqr: of this date, concerning advances for Fort Mifflin &ca. You will be pleased to cause such order to be taken on it as the necessity of the case shall appear to require.” LC , RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and...
7884To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “A considerable impediment to the arrangement of compensations adjusted on Thursday night has just occurred. The 13th Section of the law of the 5th June has been inadvertently caused to refer to the 30th day of June 1795 (‘next’) by the postponement of the consummation of the Act from the preceding month until the commencement of the...
7885To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 26, 1794. “The Superintendent of the Virginia Lt. House (col William Lyndsay) has reported the Death of the late keeper Captain Goffigan. He has placed in that Station Mr. Henry James a native of the place, an old Seafaring Man, whom he thinks every way calculated for a keeper. No other person offers for the service.…” LC , RG 26, Lighthouse...
7886To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe presents his compliments to Mr. Hamilton, with the inclosed, just received from a Committee of the Snuff manufacturers. LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1794–1795, National Archives.
7887Enclosure: [Manufacturers of Snuff in Philadelphia Remonstrate], [December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Manufacturers of Snuff in Philadelphia Remonstrate Against the manner in which the Excise or Duty is laid and to be collected on Snuff—eight Cents per pound this is on an average fifty ⅌ Cent. This is an encouragement for a defraud of the Revenue as the Excise is an encouragement so to do. Also give Bond in the Sum of Five thousand Dollars and must keep an account from day to day of the...
7888Report on an Account of Receipts and Expenditures of the United States for the Year 1793, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit a letter of this date, from the Comptroller of the Treasury, together with the Statements mentioned in it, which it has been impracticable to transmit Earlier in the Session, And to be, with perfect respect, Sir, Your obedient Servant, An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States, for the Year 1793. Stated in Pursuance of the Standing Order of...
7889Enclosure: Statement of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation Made by the Act of August 12th, 1790, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. From the said surplus being 1,374,656 dollars and 40 cents, the following sums have been drawn by warrants on the Treasurer, viz . Dolls. Cts. 1790, December 15, No. 776, in favour of Samuel Meredith, 200,000. 1791, January 26, 856, ditto, 50,000. February 5,
7890Enclosure: Statement of the Application of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation of Two Millions of Dollars, [26 December … (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. The following sums have been drawn from the said appropriation by warrants on the Treasurer, viz. Dollars. Cts. 1793, February 4, No. 2454, in favour of Jonathan Burrall, 50,000. 19, 2482, Samuel Meredith, 234,901.89 Septemb. 2, 3085, Ditto,