From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 24 July 1793
To Jeremiah Olney
Treasury Department, July 24, 1793. Acknowledges receipt of Olney’s letter “of the 26th ultimo” and states: “From the special circumstances growing out of a new law,1 I rather forbear to recommend the enforcement of Penalties in this case.”
LS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; LC, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.