From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 27 November 1794
To Jeremiah Olney
Treasury Department November 27th 1794
Sir
I have to request, that you will retain Sufficient funds in your hands to discharge the Allowances to fishing Vessels, which will become due in your District on the 31st of the ensuing Month.1 You will therefore pay these allowances agreeably to the instructions heretofore given for that purpose.2
I request however, that you will immediately furnish me with an estimate of the sum, which will be required, in order that I may regulate future draughts of the Treasurer accordingly.
I am with consideration Sir Your most Obedient Servant
A Hamilton
Jeremiah Olney Esquire
Collector of Providence
LS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Providence, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.
1. H is referring to Section 1 of “An Act concerning certain Fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the Fishermen employed therein” ( 229–32 [February 16, 1792]). For this section, see H to Benjamin Lincoln, December 5, 1793.