51To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you abstracts of all the payments to the President to the present time. It is a fact that more money has been at times advanced than was due for service , but never a Dollar for which there was no Appropriation . The villany of the suggestion against the President has induced me to reply to the Calm Observer on the 26th. & 28th. You will see what I have said & the inclosed papers will...
52To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I will in a few days inform you of the facts upon which my former Letter was predicated. The inclosed case of the Betsey Capt. Furlong excites much alarm here & I think with reason: the same principles will extirpate nine tenths of our claims for spoliations & lead to new assaults upon our Commerce. I wish to know your opinion of the mode of proceeding under the 7th. Article of our Treaty with...
53To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. you Letter of the 20th. and regret the cause which deprived me of the pleasure of seeing you. Nothing is known of the authors to which you allude. The “Features of the Treaty” were doubtless painted by Dallas. Doctrs. Logan & Leib, Bache, Beckley, T. L. Shippen, are much suspected —S. Sayre of New Jersey is I understand very violent—perhaps the avowed intemperance of these men...
54To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 15 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The President has decided that the Treaty shall be ratified & transmitted for exchange immediately and in my opinion he has decided right. I regret that this was not done long since, as I presume much of the party spirit which has been excited would have been prevented. A government like ours can rarely take a middle course on any point which interests the public feelings—delay for whatever...
55To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 3, 1795. On August 5, 1795, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received yours of the 3d instant.” Letter not found. ]
56To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have your Letter of the 28th: I will see the Secy of War this morning, and you may rely upon it, that the movement will be suspended. The true state of things in this city is, that the Treaty was at first unpopular, the expectations of vain sanguine men, who considered this Country as all powerful & intittled to dictate, were not satisfied—every engine of faction was successfully set at...
57To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
You see that attempts are made to stir up a flame & convulse the country respecting the Treaty: though the actors hitherto are known to be a factious set of men & their followers generally a contemptible mob, yet from the systimatical manner in which they have proceeded and some curious facts which have recently come to my knowledge, I cannot but suspect foul play , by persons not generally...
58To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your several Letters dated June 22d. 26th. 30th. & the 2nd. current. The non publication of the Treaty, was a measure not consistent with my first impressions & expectations. It was not however left by the Senate in the manner you suppose. Their resolution indeed evinces the contrary—& the Executive must in addition to whatever difficulties would have attended a publication, if...
59To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letters of June 13th. & 15th. for which I thank you & I inclose the statement you desire. I had in season taken measures for receiving our Debt on Loan in Amsterdam. The plan is to surrender the existing obligations to the Comrs. who in lieu thereof issue triplicate descriptive Certificates to the Creditors—any one being produced at the Treasury will command the new Stock....
60To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose an extract for your Report to the House of Representatives of the 23d. of January 1792 which contains all that was then said respecting the Loan Office Certificates bearing Interest on a nominal Capital. It would have been sent sooner if the Report could have been readily found. I am Dear Sir, with perfect respect, your most obed. servt. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress....
61Enclosure A: Statement of the Domestic Debt of the United States on 31 December 1794, 9 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Amount of principal of Unfunded debt 6 ⅌ Ct. Stock Deferred Stock 3 ⅌ Ct. Stock Total amount dollars Cents dollars Cents dollars Cents dollars Cents
62Enclosure B: Government of France Account with the United States, 6 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Dr Cr Epoch of Septem. 3d. 1794 Livres s. d. Livres s. d. To balance due to the United States at the close of the year 1793 exceeding the interest and instslments then due 2 109 974 18 2 By the eighth instalment due on Sept 3: 1794 of the loan of eighteen Millions 1,500,000 To payments made at the Treasury to may 15: viz By Account of interest, for a balance of interest due on the 3d. of...
63Enclosure C: [Statement of Interest Payable in the Year 1794], 6 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Guilders. Guilders. Guilders S: d. rate of excha. ⅌ Guilder Amount in Dollars Cents Five ⅌ Cent: Loans effected at Amsterdam. On 4,000,000 of the loan of 5,000,000 ⅌ Contracts dated June 11: 1782, at interest from June 1: 1793 to June 1: 1794 200,000 on 1,000,000 ⅌ Contract dated June 1: 1787, at interest for the same period 50,000 on 1,000,000 ⅌ Contract dated march 13: 1788, do do
64To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Statement of the Rects. & Expenditures of The United States for the year 1793 which has been prepared pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives passed on the 30th. of Dece. 1791. To this Statement an Appendix has been added, exhibiting the operation of the Fund for reducing the Domestic Debt, to the close of the year 1793, also statements of the...
65To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I judge it proper to keep you apprised of every thing material which occurs in the department and therefore enclose you copies of two letters from the Secretary at war on which Mr. Coxe has requested that 37,000 dollars may be advanced to the Contractor for rations and 15,000 or 20,000 dollars to the Contractor for cloathing for the year 1795. As there is no special appropriation, it will be...
66To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, October 14, 1794. “Letters were yesterday recd. from our Bankers at Amsterdam dated July 1st. & 15th. and August 1st. & 18th.… Mr. Willing advised me some time since not to reduce the price of Excha. on Amsterdam—the bills however were not sold the last time I inquired. I shall make a further inquiry on the subject. I cannot be certain from an Examination of the statement made by...
67To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 11 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your favour dated the 7: & 8: inst: & shall carefully attend to all your directions. I find that owing to some neglect, your letter to the Bank of New York was not recd. A duplicate which I transmitted produced a cordial & prompt compliance; this accounts for a delay, which at one time I feared was owing to a reluctance to advance the sum requested. It was not intended by me to...
68To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 2 October 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letter of Sept. 30th. & have lost no time in causing Notes to be prepared for the remittances directed to be made to Genl. Miller & Mr. Williams, which will go forward tomorrow by Colo. Presley Nevil to whom a reasonable compensation has been promised. I expect to be able to forward ninety thousand Dollars by the same conveyance to Fort Cumberland for the pay of the army. I...
69To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, July 7, 1794. “In obedience to your Letter of June 25. I have the honour to transmit a statement of the expences incurred at the respective Loan Offices for Clerkship & stationary, at the several periods therein mentioned. I have caused the number of Creditors in the different Stocks, to be stated at the same periods.…” ADf , Connecticut Historical...
70To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 24 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 24, 1794. “It is my duty to inform you that Daniel Benezet, Collector for Great-Egg-Harbour, has made no return to the Treasury since January 1792; and that several letters have been written to him from this Office on the subject, to which he has neglected to pay any attention. A similar neglect is imputable to John Lawson the younger, Collector for Sunbury, who has...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 9 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, June 9, 1794. “The following case has occurred in this Office in which I take the liberty to request that the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States may be obtained. In the beginning of the year 1787, Benjamin Eyre, being then and still a Creditor in the Unfunded Stock of the United States, became a bankrupt in London, in consequence of...
72To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The circumstance announced in the inclosed memorandum, came to my knowledge in consequence of a Letter directed to me officially; I esteem it to be my duty to lay the fact before you as I recd. it, well knowing it to be a deviation from those rules upon which you have directed the business of the Treasury Department to be conducted. I am &c ADf , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. The...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 19 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
A question has occurred upon the following state of facts upon which I take the liberty to request that a legal opinion may be obtained from the Attorney General of the United States. By the Act entitled “an Act providing for the settlement of the claims of Persons under particular circumstances barred by the limitations heretofore established,” passed in the 27th. of March 1792, a period of...
74To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 21 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to your directions I herewith transmit the original statement of Jno. Blanchards Account of New Emissions, which was settled at the Treasury in Sept. 1790. It is true that he paid the following sums in New Emissions to Heza. Wetmore for which Credits are passed in the accounts of Jno. Pierce Esq. late P Master General viz 1781 July 1st 50. Sept. 10th 377.30 being in the whole Four...
75To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The question whether Stock standing on the books of the Treasury & the Loan Offices respectively, is liable to attachment, being yet undecided, I judge it necessary to apprise you, that consequences unfavourable to the public Credit, are to be apprehended. The most considerable Credits which have been attached are those standing in the names of John Warder & Co & Donald & Burton; and the...
76To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit an Account of the Receipts & Expenditures of the United States for the year 1792, stated from the Records of the Treasury Department pursuant to the permanent Order of the House of Representatives of the 30th. of December 1791. It will be observed that the statement of appropriations & Expenditures now presented, varies in the detail of the Arrangement, from that which was...
77To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears from accounts depending in the Treasury & unsettled, that very considerable Supplies were furnished by the United States to the Marine of France in the years 1778 1779 & 1780, under the Agency of John Holker Esq late Consul general. The payments made by Mr. Holker on this account, were in Continental bills long after the Supplies were furnished, & when the currency was greatly...
78To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have no recollection of Mr. Anthony Singletons application to fund Certificates of Regd. Debt, and unless the Certificates are presented I cannot judge whether there are any valid objections against complying with his request. I well recollect that in the year 1791, it was a standing rule to admit no transfer of any Certificates issued by Mr. Nourse without a power of Attorney. It was found...
79To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The original papers of which I herewith enclose Copies, were a few days since recd. from the Accountts Office as Vouchers for accounts transmitted by Mr. Swan Pay Master of the Troops & for which he claims credit. The indications which they contain, that the instructions which were transmitted by the Treasury have not been pursued, render it my duty to submit the case to your consideration. By...
80To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 23 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to submit to your consideration, a draft of a Letter to the Contractors of the Army, respecting the payment of Subsistence to Officers—and a proposal for an alteration in the form of the Abstract of Rations issued, which will be particularly necessary in case the proposed arrangement is adopted. It has occurred as a question whether the third section of the Act making...
81To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to enclose a copy of a Letter recd. in this office from the Sec. of War, the object of which is, that provision be made for discharging at the Office of the Accountant some part of the pay due to the Commissd. & Non Commissd. officers, and Privates of the Army. There is nothing in the Law which contemplates an arrangement of this kind; but in case it can be carried into...
82To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused a Letter dated July 30th. 1793 addressed by Mr Andrew G. Fraunces to the President of the United States, and agreably to your request I now communicate a statement of such facts as have come to my knowledge in relation to the claim he has adduced. The principal funds for satisfying demands upon the United States during the administration of the late Board of Treasury, were the...
83To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of communicating to you the information which has been received for the subscriptions to the loan payable in the principal and interest of certificates or notes issued by the respective States, and of the amount admitted on loan, under the Acts of August 4th. 1790 and May 8th. 1792 In certificates of the State of New Hampshire subscribed under the act of august 4: 1790...
84To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 27 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit an extract from a Law of the Commonwealth of Virginia passed on the 26th. of Decr. 1792. Also extracts from a Letter written by Jno. Hopkins Esq. dated Jany 3d. 1793. & from a Letter written to him from this office dated February 22d 1793. These papers will shew, that the Commonwealth of Virginia authorised the Treasr. to issue from the State Treasy. certain Certificates of...
85To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The 25th: Section of the act entittled “an Act concerning the registering & recording of Ships & Vessells” provides for the payment of the following fees to the Officers of the Customs. For the admeasurement of a Ship encluding Cents 200 Tons 200. For a Certificate of Registry 200. For a Bond 25 $4.25. In Districts where there is no Naval Officer, two thirds of the fees, are to be recd. for...
86Enclosure 2: [List of Several Persons Employed in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury], 3 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
List of the Several Persons Employed in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States on the 31st. of December 1792, and of the Salaries Per Annum Allowed to Each. Names of the persons employed. Their rank. Their Salary. Oliver Wolcott, junior, Comptroller of the Treasury Dollars 2400. Henry Kuhl principal Clerk 800. William Brodie Clerk 600. William M. Biddle ditto 600....
87To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to transmit the following statements of disbursements by the Department of War in the years 1790 & 1791. Number 1. Being a statement of the accounts of Henry Knox Esq. Secretary at War as settled at the Treasury. No. 2. Being a statement of the accounts of Joseph Howell Esq. from the 10th. of Sept. 1789. to the 1st. of March 1790. as settled at the Treasury. No. 3. Being a...
88To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 24 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, November 24, 1792. “I have prepared a sett of forms for the Superintendents of Indian Affairs, which I have now the honor to transmitt for your consideration, also the draft of a Letter on the same subject. These forms have been calculated with a view to the establishment of an Officer, to superintend the examination & settlement of all deliveries of...
89To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 24 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, October 24, 1792. “Some time since a claim was presented for settlement by Mr. Samuel Young of this City in favour of William Lewiss late a Soldier of the Virginia Regiment of the Army, which … has been certified by the Register of the Treasury. The delivery of the Certificate was however suspended.… The claim is now renewed by Mr. George Stout who...
90To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 12 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It is my opinion that compensations for the services of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts in making records & issuing Certificates for the pensions of Invalids are fully provided for, by the third section of the Act intittled “an Act for regulating processes in the Courts of the United States and providing compensations for the Officers of the said Courts & for Jurors & Witness” and that...
91To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 25 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, June 25, 1792. “I have considered the proposition stated in … Governor Mifflins Letter to you dated the 23d. instant, and can discover no objection to an arrangement being made, for permitting transfers to the Commonwealth of Pensylvania, of the sums which have been subscribed in the State Certificates. If this is done the Commonwealth will be...
92To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 22 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honour to enclose for your inspection a statement of the Loans recd. by the United States from the Government of France with a calculation of the Interest due thereon to the 1st. day of January 1792. In this statement no notice is taken of the advances made at the Treasury of the United States or of the remittances by the Dutch Commissioners on account of said Loans. In the account...
93To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 13 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The paper referred to by Abishai Thomas Esq. in his Letter dated the 12th instant, is merely a Rect. signed “ James Green Jr. Treas. Loan Office ” for a number of indented Certificates supposed to be then issued in pursuance of the resolutions of Congress of the 2d. of January & 2nd. of July 1779 in favour of a Chairman of a Committee of Accounts in North Carolina. The Rect. was given by Mr....
94To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The following occurrence has happened in relation to which I request your opinion. Matthias Huysinga Misschert in pursuance of a power of Attorney from Theodosus Gerhardus Bosch of Utrecht, has subscribed to the Loan proposed by Congress about seventy thousand Dollars of Registered Debt, for which he requests Certificates of Funded Debt in the name of the said Bosch. Previously to the time of...
95To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, June 4, 1792. “I have considered the question stated by Samuel Bayard Esq Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States … & am of opinion that charges for postage which may be incurred by him in executing his official duties can be properly allowed.… The Letters from Mr. Bayard to the several Clerks can be ⟨ma⟩rked as paid & the postage charged to...
96To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 12 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 12, 1792. Submits “forms for regulating the payment of Interest on the Funded Stock in the Loan Offices of Massachusetts, New York, Pensylvania, Maryland & So Carolina.” ADf , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
97To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The following occurrence took place a few days since in this Office, which I take the liberty to state, that a rule may be established to govern in future or similar occasions. Solomen Marks Jr appeared at the Office with John McCulloh and in his presence wrote a transfer to said McCulloh on a Certificate for One hundred & eighty one Dolls & sixty one Cents. six ⅌ Cent Stock. Before the...
98To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed Letters of Administration granted to Catharine Jones on the estates of John Hanholt George Hollman, Bernard Brulbiner, James Burt John Geroir, & Atonia Lasambert late Soldiers of Genl Hazens Regt. were some time since presented at this Office with a power of Attorney from the said Catharine Jones, to Alexander Power of the City of Philadelphia, Broker for the purpose of obtaining...
99To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed documents were lodged in this office by the assignees therein named for the purpose of obtaining transfers of all the Stock in the books of the Treasury to the Credit of John M. Taylor & Andrew Summers. The business has been hitherto suspended for the purpose of ascertaining whether any of the provisions in the Bankrupt Law of Pensylvania, would render it unsafe or inexpedient to...
100To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, February 29, 1792. Sends report on memorial of Samuel Fowler. States: “Though there is not any recollection of the particular Certificate presented by Saml Fowler and defaced at the Treasury, yet from the circumstances now stated, it is evident that said Certificate was a forgery and not chargeable to the public. That the negligence imputed by the...