51From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 26 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I received with your letter of the 16th of March last an estimate of expences for repairing the revenue Cutter which has in the hurry of business hitherto remained unattended to. If these repairs have not already been done in consequence of my circular letter of the 19th instant they may be done upon the smallest of the two scales proposed. I have noticed that you have appointed Mr. Richmond...
52From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 29 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit you the copy of a letter written by the Collector of Salem to the Attorney for the District of Massachusetts respecting certain Persons, who, it is stated, have left that State and gone to Baltimore, being indebted to the United States for duties bonded, without leaving sufficient property to secure the debt. I have to request that you will take such measures as you shall...
53From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 12 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 24th Ultimo was received some time ago. You will make the arrangement in question, as to Boats, combining the accomodation of the Cutter with that of the Port. It does not appear that there is sufficient reason for complying with the wishes of the Boatmen, as to wages. If there be inconveniences, there are counterbalancing advantages in their situation. With consideration, ...
54From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 19 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have placed in the hands of the Commissioner of Loans in the State of Maryland sundry draughts the direction of which he is instructed to fill with the name of the Cashier of either of the Banks of North America or New York or with your name as he may find the demand of the purchasers to be. The bills drawn upon you which were suspended when you were last here will continue to be suspended....
55From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 12 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The charges on the canvas intended for the Maryland Cutter appear to be proper objects of debit to that vessel. The sum of one dollar and fourteen Cents may therefore be charged in her disbursements. You will perceive that my Circular letter of the 2d instant will prevent future expence of postage to the Collectors in receiving Registers from one another. I am, Sir, Your Most Obed Servant. LS...
56From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 8 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I inclose you the extract of a letter from the Collector of the District of Chester. As I recollect nothing which authorises the practice he speaks of, I conclude there must be some misapprehension; but it is proper I should communicate the matter to you, and understand from you, what can have given rise to the representation. I remain, Sir, Your obedt. Servt. LS , Columbia University...
57From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 31 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is my wish that you make the Bank of Maryland, which is established in the Town of Baltimore the place of depositing the Cash belonging to the United States which may be from time to time in your hands as collector of the District of Baltimore. I shall transmit a circular letter with respect to the receipt of its Notes, to which I must refer you on that point. I am, Sir Your most Obedt...
58From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 14 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I duly received your Communication of the 4th instant, concerning the difference which has been discovered between the instruments, used for ascertaining the proof of distilled spirits. The circumstance is very much to be regretted but I do not at present see that it admits of remedy as to the past. The impossibility of ascertaining what is right, is a great objection to restitution, even if I...
59From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 4 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 4, 1792. “I am informed that there is a vessel in Your Port for Amsterdam; which will sail about the 10th instant. I enclose You a letter for Messrs Willink & van Staphorst, which I request may be forwarded by that vessel.…” LS , Columbia University Libraries. This is presumably a reference to H to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and...
60From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 10 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received a statement of the case of the Brig Trimmer from the Judge of the District Court of Maryland, and have determined to remit the forfeitures and penalties incurred by the vessel, goods and captain, on the repayment of the disbursements of money actually made. As the season of the year is critical, and the vessel may, if detained, be caught by the ice, I request that you will...
61From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 18 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Commissioner of the Revenue has laid before me copies of three letters, one of the 3rd. of May from you to the Surveyor of Baltimore, another of the 9th of May from him to you, and a third of the 7th of June from him, in capacity of Inspector of the Revenue for the port of Baltimore, to the Supervisor, communicating the correspondence between you and him and stating certain embarrassments...
62From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 19 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In the documents which you transmitted to me concerning the goods of MacRae and Morrison which have been seized, I observe— That one of the cases of Hats both in the Bill of Sale and deposition of Mr Frazer is numbered 12 and that no such number appears in the statement of the packages imported and of which the Goods seized are alleged to have been a part. The numbers of all the cases stated...
63From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, [25 November 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I write you officially by this post; but there is a passage in your letter about which I cannot forbear saying something in a private letter. After remarking on the occasion which a departure from instructions might give to an inference that the accommodation of private interest might be the inducement, You add, “I should not mention the latter, if intimations of precautions (which are...
64From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 15 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Your favour of the 18th. of December duly came to hand. With regard to the difficulty of reconciling the total exemption of Vessels, under twenty tons burthen from tonnage, with the clause you quote from the 23d. Section: you have yourself given the true solution. The word such must be understood. Vessels above Twenty tons are spoken of in the first part of the section and must be supposed to...
65From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 13 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
On the receipt of this letter you will be pleased to pay to Mr. Stodder the balance due upon his contract with you for the building and outfit of the revenue cutter, provided you find he has duly complied with the Terms of his engagement. It is requisite that you transmit to the Treasury a copy of your Contract with Mr. Stodder. I am Sir, Your most Obedt Servant LS , Columbia University...
66From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 21 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Captain Porter of the Revenue Cutter Active having communicated to me, that he has reasons to be dissatisfied with the conduct of his third Mate Mr. James Forbes, I have to desire that you will make proper enquiry into the affair, in which the Naval Officer is requested to assist; communicating to me the result. Enclosed is an extract of Captain Porters letter for your information. I am Sir...
67From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 11 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have, on consideration, concluded to authorise you to allow the Officers and crew of the revenue cutter twelve cents per ration, instead of nine cents, mentioned in my circular letter of the 21st September. But the allowance claimed for expences of board is inadmissible; their pay and rations must be considered as a full compensation. I am, Sir, Your Obed Servant. LS , Columbia University...
68From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 6 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In pursuance of the intimation in a former letter I am to request that you will pay to Messrs Elliot & Williams as an advance upon the Contract lately entered into with them, out of the amount of the duties accruing in your district, ten thousand Dollars. It is my intention to make them a further advance, on the first day of January next of an equal sum. With great consideration I am Sir ...
69From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 30 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 30, 1794. Asks “what Experience has decided in regard to the quality of the sail Cloth which has been used for the Cutter under your direction.” LS , Columbia University Libraries. See also H to Benjamin Lincoln, June 28, 1794 ; H to William Seton, June 30, 1794 . This letter was endorsed “Answer’d 13 July.” The reply has not been found, but presumably it was written...
70From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 30 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 30, 1790. Informs Williams of regulations on payment of invalid pensions. LS , Columbia University Libraries. This is a duplicate of the letter sent to Jedediah Huntington on the same date.
71From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 27 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you the copy of a Petition from a Mr Salomon to the District Judge of maryland, respecting a certain quantity of Coffee, which has been seized in your Port. I request that you will state to me the appearance of the affair in your view and inform me at the same time if any thing has been done with the Schooner; in regard to which there is at least a strong presumption of improper...
72From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 5 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
If the Supervisor of the District of Maryland should apply to you for four hundred Dollars, you will advance him that sum, which he will repay to you out of the duties on Spirits distilled within his district as soon as a sufficient sum shall be received. You will nevertheless take duplicate receipts and transmit one to the Treasury. The state of the business does not permit that this sum...
73From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 8 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 4th instant, concerning the Cutter, Active, I refer you to mine of the 5th. With regard to the addition of 10 ⅌ Ct to be made to the several rates of duties, in respect to all goods, Wares and Merchandizes imported in Ships or Vessels not of the United States, agreeably to the 2d Section of the Act “making further provision for the payment of the debt &ca,” I am...
74From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 18 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
You[r] letter of the 7th of November duly came to hand. The mode you have adopted for the delivery of the Bank Notes is under the circumstances the proper one. In mine of the 20th of October I directed the Quarterly Returns to be made up to the last of September. Of course those after that day will terminate at the end of every subsequent three Months; that is to say the next after that to the...
75From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 21 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith enclose you a letter directed to Thos. Pinckney Esquire London. It covers one to Messers Willink and Van Staphorst, Bankers in Amsterdam. I request that you will forward the letter by the first opportunity to London, if no immediate conveyance offers for Amsterdam; but if there should be a vessel in your port for Amsterdam you will please to open the outside cover addressed to Mr....
76From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 10 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
A petition from Mr John Hollins, of Baltimore, to the House of representatives has been refered to me on which I shall report that in my opinion the existing law admits of the relief desired by the petitioner. Annexed to the petition are legal Testimonies that the Schooner John was before the first of January 1791. within the Capes of Chessapeak bay, whence it follows that the Cargo on board...
77From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 7 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 7, 1793. “I duly received your letter of the 28th Ultimo.… In reply to this letter, I have to refer you to my Circular one of the 30th Ultimo.” LS , Columbia University Libraries.
78From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 16 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that you will have enquiry made on board the Cutter Active , whether she is in possession of a double set of arms muskets, pistols, &ca. The Collector of New York was directed to furnish each Cutter with ten muskets and bayonets, twenty pistols, two chissels, one broad axe and two lanthorns. These articles, it appears, have been shipped by Mr Lamb for each of the Cutters—but none...
79From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 20 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The house of Zacharia Coopman & Co. has made application to me for an abatement of interest upon their Bonds which have been lately put in suit. There are certain equitable considerations, which dispose me, as far as shall be found right to attend to this application. But before any decision is taken, I wish to be particularly informed of the circumstances of the respective suits: of the...
80From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 14 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Answer to my Enquiries, relative to the case of the Snow St Martin. The Act of Congress transmitted you from this Office on the 3d Instant will shew you the line of proceeding to obtain relief in the case of the Ship Van Staphorst. Messrs. Bertier & Company have had the same information. I am Sir with respect Your Obedient Servant LS , Columbia University Libraries....