From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 7 July 1794
To Henry Knox1
[Philadelphia] July 7, 1794. “The Congress of the United States having … appropriated a further Sum of Thirty Thousand dollars2 in addition to the Seventy Six Thousand dollars heretofore granted for the purpose of fortifying certain ports and Harbours in the United States3 … I have to request you will be pleased to furnish me as soon as convenient with a Memorandum of the manner in which the said Sum … is to be apportioned among the several ports and Harbours.…”
Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of War, Third Congress, National Archives.
1. A copy of this letter was enclosed in a report which Knox submitted to Congress on December 19, 1794. The report is printed in , Military Affairs, I, 71–107.
2. “An Act making appropriations for certain purposes therein expressed” ( 394 [June 9, 1794]).
3. “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four” ( 346–47 [March 21, 1794]); “An Act supplementary to ‘An act to provide for the Defence of certain Ports and Harbors in the United States’” ( 367 [May 9, 1794]).