Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Application of Money Given by Law to the Indigent of Santo Domingo, [22 April 1794]
Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Application of Money
Given by Law to the Indigent of Santo Domingo
[Philadelphia, April 22, 1794]
We do ourselves the honor of advising the President of the U. S. to apply the remainder of the money, given by law to the indigent of St. Domingo, resident here,1 to the furnishing of them with the means of going thither, it being known, that several vessels are now bound thither from different parts of the U. S. with passports for the purpose of conveying them.2
Edm: Randolph.
H Knox
Alexander Hamilton.
DS, in the writing of Edmund Randolph, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives; LC, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives.
1. “An Act providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, resident within the United States, as may be found in want of support” ( 13 [February 12, 1794]). See George Washington to H, March 4, 1794, note 1; March 21, 1794, note 2.
2. On April 26, 1794, the President signed passports for several ships to go to “the Island of St. Domingo, in ballast—with liberty to take in such Inhabitants of sd. Island as may choose to go as passengers, with their clothing, baggage & seastores” ( , 289).