61Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 25 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 25, 1791. On April 9, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your special Letter 24th March … and also your Circular Letter 25th March are this minute come to hand.” Circular of March 25 not found. ]
62Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 14 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The House of Representatives having been pleased to direct me to examine and report upon the emoluments of the several Officers of the Customs, I find it necessary to enable me to form a satisfactory judgment upon the subject, that I be furnished with an accurate account, as much as possible in detail, of all the Monies received in the four quarters of the year 1790 by every Officer of the...
63Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 16 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 16, 1791. On April 27, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “I am this minute favoured with your Circular Letter 16th instant.” Circular not found. ]
64Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 2 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 2, 1791. On May 15, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “I am favoured with your circular Letter 2d. instant. Circular not found. ]
65Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 13 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I find instances that have occurred in some of the Custom-houses, of receiving the duties on goods by estimates formed upon the invoices, or the statements of the Masters and Owners of the vessels, and by other means than actual gauging, weighing, measuring, &c. This, it is manifest, is not conformable to law, and may lead to practices very injurious to the revenue. Neither is it necessary to...
66Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 25 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 25, 1791. On June 7, 1791, Jeremiah Olney wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your two circular letters of the 25th. and 26th of May.” Circular of May 25 not found. ] On May 25, 1791, H wrote a letter to Olney marked “circular,” but as the information in this letter was clearly not intended for the other collectors of the customs it has not been printed as a Treasury...
67Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 26 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will find for your information, generally, and Government, in certain particulars, certain explanations & instructions concerning the two Acts, severally entitled “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; and also upon spirits distilled within the United States and...
68Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 27 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
By the 18th Section of the Act, making provision for the debt of the United States, it is declared that the payment of interest, whether to States or to Individuals, in respect to the debt of any State which may have exchanged its own securities for those of the United States, shall be suspended until a reexchange shall have taken place or a surrender be made of the last mentioned securities....
69Treasury Department Circular to the Captains of the Revenue Cutters, 1 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have already communicated to you some general instructions to govern you in the execution of your duty as the Commander of the revenue cutter for the [Massachusetts] Station. I have now to inform you that your vessel will be under the management of the Collector of [Boston] as to supplies of provisions, stores, and occasional repairs, and I shall write him to that effect this day. You will...
70Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 1 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this day written to the Captain of the revenue cutter building for the [Pennsya.] station and I enclose you the letter unsealed which you will deliver to him open after you have caused a copy of it to be made and kept for your own information. It will also be proper that you retain a copy of my circular instructions to him, which are likewise transmitted unsealed. You will perceive that...
71Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 1 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Bank of Maryland being in operation, and its paper having gone into circulation, it is my desire, that the cash notes (that is those payable in specie on demand) be received by you in discharge of all duties of impost and tonnage, arrising in your district under the laws of the United States, and that you will exchange whatever specie you may at any time have in your hands for those notes....
72Treasury Department Circular to the Captains of the Revenue Cutters, 4 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As you are speedily to enter upon the Duties of your Station, it becomes proper briefly to point them out to you. Accordingly I send you a copy of the Act under which you have been appointed & in which are contained your powers, & the objects to which you are to attend & I shall add such observations as appear to me requisite to guide you in fulfilling the intent of that Act. It may be...
73Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 4 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will by the post immediately succeeding the closing of your books, preparatorily to the payment of interest, in each quarter, transmit to the Treasury a summary of the amount of each kind of stock then standing on your books, in order to the requisite provisions for making such payment. I am, Sir, Your obedt. servant LS , to James Tilton, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington.
74Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 22 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Having been directed by the House of Representatives to report a Plan for promoting Manufactures in the United States, I am desirous of obtaining as accurate Information as possible of the actual State of Manufactures in the several States. Conceiving that this Information is not likely to be obtained in any Way so complete, full and systematic, as by a resort to the Supervisors of the...
75Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 25 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears proper that a notification to the distillers and importers of distilled spirits be published in the Gazettes, containing information of the Office of inspection in which they are (in the three first days of July) to make entry of the spirits by them respectively distilled or imported, which shall be on hand on the 1st day of July next. I am, sir, Your Most Obedt Servant LS , to...
76Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 27 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The legislature of the United States have directed in the 18th. Section of the Act making provision for the public debt that the payment of interest should be suspended in respect to the debt of any State which may have issued its own certificates for those of the ⟨U⟩nited States “until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that certificates issued for that...
77Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 27 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inconveniencies have been apprehended by some of the holders of distilled spirits, other than importers and distillers , from the want of the Mark of “Old Stock” on the spirits they may have in store on the first day of July next. It appears advisable to let it be understood among the holders of spirits that if they desire their stock on hand to be examined and marked, their wishes will be...
78Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have already written to you in regard to the disbursements of the Revenue Cutter on your station, except the pay of the officers and men, and have now to request that you will duly attend to that business also, so as to have in your hands the entire agency. A form will be transmitted to you, in which you will make your quarterly returns at the same periods (though distinctly) as in the...
79Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, [8–12] July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of two questions lately proposed to me, the first upon the impost Act., and the 2nd. upon the 41 section of the Collection law, I signify to you my opinion on the following points. 1st. That the teas called “ Young Hyson ” and “ Hyson skin ,” are not subject to the duties which, in the several cases are laid on Hyson, but to those only which are imposed on other Green teas;...
80Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 4 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is deemed conducive to the general order of the department that the respective Commissioners of loans should henceforth transmit to the Comptroller of the Treasury all such official statements returns and documents respecting the public debt as they have been or shall be directed to furnish, except the summary of the amount of each kind of stock standing upon their books which has been...
81Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 5 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Information has been given to me, that the Sloop Lurana, of Washington in North-Carolina, lately commanded by Thomas Eastwood, has been sold in Hispaniola to a person unknown, and there is some reason to apprehend that her certificate of registry has been disposed of with her, or retained for illicit purposes by the Captain. This certificate is numbered 28, and bears date at the port of...
82Treasury Department Circular, 13 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Some investigations in which I am engaged induce a wish to be able to form as accurate an idea as can be obtained of the usual product in proportion to the value of cultivated lands in different parts of the United States. As I am persuaded no person can better assist me in this object than yourself, I take the liberty to ask the favor of your assistance. It has occurred to me that if the...
83Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 18 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer to remit you drafts for Sixty five thousand Dollars towards payment of the quarters interest ending the last of September next. These Drafts are with blanks for the direction as heretofore, and may be filled with the name either of the Cashier of the Bank of Massachusetts or of New York or of North America or with the name of the Collector of Boston. One half of...
84Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 20 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been suggested to me that the Grocers in one of the Seaport Towns of the United States have received applications from Persons concerned in foreign trade for the purchase of their Casks marked “Old Stock.” It will be quickly perceived that such a measure affords the strongest reason to suspect, that illicit practices, evasive of both the Revenue and impost are intended. To prevent the...
85Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 21 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It being necessary to fix the rates at which the additional rations for the Officers of the Cutters are to be paid for, I have determined, on consideration, to instruct you to allow to the Captain & other Officers of the Cutter, under your Agency, the sum of nine Cents for every ration which they shall not draw, and for which they shall prefer to receive payment in money. It will also be...
86Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 21 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It being necessary to ascertain correctly the state of the public monies in the several Custom-Houses, I enclose you a form of a return of bonds which may not be paid with punctuality, which it is my desire that you regularly transmit at foot of every monthly return of bonds, though there should be none unpaid, noting in the proper column that the fact is so. Those parts which are printed in...
87Treasury Department Circular to the Supervisors of the Revenue, 30 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Increasing embarrassments concerning the seizure of spirits for want of being accompanied with Certificates render it necessary that the ideas communicated in particular cases should be made general. I therefore make them the subject of this Circular letter. A disagreable dilemma presents itself. This is either to forbear seizures for want of marks and certificates, which will materially...
88Treasury Department Circular to the District Judges, 17 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
A question has occurred whether upon a Petition being presented in order to the mitigation or remission of any forfeiture, which may have been incurred, the Judge to whom it is presented may release the Vessel or goods forfieted, upon taking some proper surety to abide the event. I deem it not proper to give an opinion respecting the construction of the law in this particular; but I think it...
89Report on the Estimate of Expenditures for 1792, 4 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives the Estimates herewith transmitted, No. I, II, III, IV. Dollars. Cents. The first, relating to the Civil List, or the expenditure for the support of Government during the year 1792, (including incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and...
90Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 11 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
An order having been transmitted to me from the honorable House of Representatives, to make certain returns, relative to the exports, imports and tonnage of the United States, I find it necessary to press your immediate transmission of all such documents as are to come from your Office, to the 30th of September last. A case, which has been represented to me, renders it necessary to intimate to...