6951Enclosure: [Memorandum of Proposals Received for Erecting a Light-House at Cape Henry], [5 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
No. 1. by Lemuel Carter of Norfolk to be built of Brick above the foundation; according to proposals in the Virginia Gazettes. Dollars. 24,000. No. 2. by Moore & Robinson of New York; according to proposals in Greenleaf’s paper, & to the elevation exhibited. if of Brick — Dls. 21.842. by the same —If of hammered stone 22.342. the payments as may be agreed. No. 3.
6952Receipt from George Parkinson, 30 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Received from Alexander Hamilton Esquire Forty eight Dollars, being for three months subsistence to wit; from the 20th April 1791 to the 20th instant. DS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Parkinson, an English mechanic, came to America in 1790. With the support of Tench Coxe he drew up plans for a flax-spinning machine and secured a patent for it. In December, 1791, H appointed him a...
6953Enclosure: Schedule H, [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
SCHEDULE H Table for a Tontine of Six Classes, the Number of Lives in Each Class Being Indefinite, Calculated on a Payment of Two Hundred Dollars by Each Subscriber, and at a Rate of Interest of Four Per Cent. The Computation on the Best Life in Each Class, And on the Supposition that the Subscribers to Each Class Will not be Less Than the Respective Numbers Specified in the First Column....
6954Enclosure: [An Act Repealing Duties Laid Upon Distilled Spirits Imported], [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
An ACT repealing, after the last day of next, the Duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, as well to discourage the excessive use of those Spirits, and promote Agriculture, as to provide for the support of the Public Credit, and for the Common Defence and General Welfare. I....
6955[A Statement of the Monies Which Have Been Borrowed in the United States by the Government], 10 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Under the Act, intituled “An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year 1790,” the following sums were borrowed from the Bank of New York, and applied, as specified in the said Act, Viz: 1790, March 31st 30.000. dollars. April 8th 25.000. 55,000. dollars, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the respective dates mentioned, to the 14th. May 1790, when the loan...
6956Enclosure: Statement of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation Made by the Act of August 12th, 1790, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. From the said surplus being 1,374,656 dollars and 40 cents, the following sums have been drawn by warrants on the Treasurer, viz . Dolls. Cts. 1790, December 15, No. 776, in favour of Samuel Meredith, 200,000. 1791, January 26, 856, ditto, 50,000. February 5,
6957Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Depredations of the Creek Indians Upon the State of Georgia, 29 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States having assembled the heads of the respective departments and the attorney General, laid before them for their advice thereon, sundry communications from the Governor of Georgia, and others, relatively to the recent alarming depredations of the creek Indians upon the state of Georgia. Whereupon after the subject was maturely considered and discussed it was...
6958Enclosure: [An Abstract Statement of the Sum], [24 August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Purchases of the Public Debt: Dollars. Amount thereof extinguished, 1,456.743 38 Warrants drawn by the Board of treasury under the late government, and which have been discharged in pursuance of the act of Congress of 29th Sept. 1789, 157,789 94 Civil List—for various payments made upon accounts which originated under the late government, 25,768 50 War Department, being for arrearages of pay...
6959Report on Compensation to the Commissioners of Loans, 14 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the Order of the House of Representatives, of the 13th. Ultimo, relative to compensation to the Commissioners of Loans for the extraordinary expenses, that may, in the first instance, be incurred by them in the execution of the Act making provision for the public debt; Respectfully reports, That as the allowances to the several Commissioners of...
6960Enclosure B: [Appropriations Made by Congress August 1789–December 1790], [3 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Appropriations made by Congress between August 1789 and December 1790. Dollars. Total. Balance. Appropriation of 216.000. ⅌ act of Septmr: 20th. 1789 216.000 } No. 1 38 125.68 39 190.000. ” ditto ” 190 000 38.854. 3. 69. ”
6961To Alexander Hamilton from ———, [October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Answer 1st The Ships built in Massachusetts are constructed to combine the two great objects of sailing & carrying, perhaps better than those of either of the Nations mentiond (those of France & G Britain in some instances excepted); whereby altho’ they may not be capable of carrying so much in proportion to their measure they will sail faster, are more safe at Sea; & have an advantage in...
6962Enclosure: Statement of the Application of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation Made by the Act of the 8th of May, 1792 … (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. 1791. Dollars.Cts. March. Interest received and expended in purchases by Benjamin Lincoln, 5.51 31. Interest due this day, 4,230.63 June 30. ditto, 5,013.02 Sept. ditto, 8,635.18 Dec. 31. ditto, 6,989.01 1792. Mar.
6963[An Act in Addition to the “Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States”], [5 June 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
JCH Transcripts John C. Hamilton Transcripts, Columbia University Libraries. ; JCHW John C. Hamilton, ed., The Works of Alexander Hamilton (New York, 1851–1856). , V, 95–99. Although John Church Hamilton attributes this document to H, no evidence has been found that it was written by H. This act became law on June 5, 1794 ( 1 Stat. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America...
6964Enclosure B: [Estimate of Certain Additional and Eventual Allowances], [21 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
An Estimate of certain additional & eventual allowances of expenses in the collection of the Revenue during the two years ending on the 30 day of June 1793. For gauging of Domestic distilled Spirits prior to the 30 June 1792 if it shall appear to have been performed by any person other than an officer of the Revenue; for office rent of the Supervisors if actually incurred at any place other...
6965Remarks on a Request by Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 11 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury waited upon the President on the subject of the papers which were put into his hands yesterday, and observed. That the advance required by the French Consuls could be made without any inconvenience to the Treasury of the U. S. but as the U. S. had already paid to France the amot. of what was due to her at present , and as the unsettled State of things in France...
6966Enclosure: Jared Ingersoll to Alexander J. Dallas, 28 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Engagements at Court have prevented me from returning an earlier answer to your favor of the 23d instant. I am of opinion that after the passing the act of Assembly of the twenty seventh of March 1789, and the other acts on the subject, the New Loan certificates ceased to be a State debt within the view of the Legislature, and could not consistently with those laws be recognized by the...
6967Enclosure: [Summary Statement of Monies Received into the Treasury of the United States], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
A Summary Statement of Monies Received into the Treasury of the United States, in the Year 1793. For Duties on Merchandise and Tonnage. From the Collectors of the Customs, agreeably to the preceding statement of the said duties. On warrants passed to the credit of the respective collectors in the year 1792, which are included in the treasurer’s accounts for the year 1793, 44,905.96 On warrants...
6968Enclosure: [General Statement of Certain Appropriations Made by Law], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
A General Statement of Certain Appropriations Made by Law for the Service of the Year 1793, Including the Balances of Former Appropriations Unexpended on the Last Day of December, 1792; Exhibiting Also, the Expenditures of the United States for the Year 1793, on Warrants Issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Unexpended Balances of the Said Appropriations, which Are to Be Accounted...
6969Enclosure, [11 June 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr de Talleyrand and Mr de Beaumez have their Relations in France; none of whom have been accused. But they are arrested as having been heretofore Nobles, without any other suspicion as to their private characters. If they were under accusation, Mr de Talleyrand and Mr de Beaumez would not entreat the interest of Mr Monroe in their favour. As suspicions to which men are liable, may be of more...
6970Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 16 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 16, 1794. “At a Meeting of Vice President & President of the Senate, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury” it was resolved “That the two last dividends of Interest on the several species of Stock standing on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund … be applied to the purchase of the public debt within the limits of the...
6971Enclosure: [Statement Regarding the Brig Peace], [13 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Statement William Hart, a resident of Manchester in Virginia and a Citizen, went to the East Indies in January 1792 on business and to take a view of that country. He left a general power of Attorney with P. Hart to act for him in all cases whatever. He owned an American Brig named the Peace , which P. Hart, his Attorney, has since sold as she was at sea on a voyage to Europe, to Alexander...
6972Enclosure: [Statement of Monies Transferred to the United States], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Guilders. Rate of exch. Dols. Cts. Dols. Cts. Amount of bills of exchange drawn by the Treasurer on the Commissioners in Amstedam, Guilders 5,649,621.2.8 Deduct bills repurchased of the Bank of the United States, and cancelled, 495,000. . 5,154,621.2.8 sold for 2,104,566.24 Amount applied in Europe and at the Treasury for the interest on the foreign debt, in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793,...
6973Appendix: [Various Statements], [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Funded Domestic Debt. Dollars. Cents. Six per Cent. stock 18,169,213.15 Deferred six per Cent. stock 9,084,608.46 Three per Cent. stock 12,432,649.64 39,686,471.25 Funded Assumed Debt. Six per Cent stock 8,120,824.11 Deferred six per Cent. stock 4,060,411.78 Three per Cent. stock 6,090,551.57 18,271,787.46 Registered Debt. Principal of registered debt remaining on the books of the Treasury...
6974Enclosure: Explanations and Instructions Concerning the Act, [26 May 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Explanations and Instructions Concerning The Act, Entitled, “An ACT repealing after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled SPIRITS imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon spirits distilled within the United States; and for appropriating the same:” Passed In the third Session of CONGRESS, On the 2d of March 1791. Explanations, &c....
6975Enclosure No. III: [Probable State of Cash, April 1–July 1, 1793], [18 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. To balance of Cash, per statement No. 1 664,180.89. To amount of Sums expected to be received during this quarter on Accot. of the duties of Imports & tonnage Vizt: per returns to the 7 March 1793. 747,691.96. per estimate in the cases of deficient returns. 200.000.
6976Conference Concerning the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, [2 August 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The President opened the business by stating that it was hardly necessary to prepare the subject of the conference, as it was generally understood, and the circumstances which accompanied it were such as to strike at the root of all law & order; that he was clearly of opinion that the most spirited & firm measures were necessary to rescue the State as well as the general government from the...
6977Enclosure: [List of Clerks Engaged in Registers Office], 11 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Division of the Treasury Records Names Salary Employment Revenue arising from Impost, Tonnage and Excise. Joshua Dawson 700 Superintends and Examines the Accounts of Impost Tonnage and Excise. He also corrisponds with, and forwards to, the several Commissioners of Loans Certificates for the public Debt. He forwards to the several Collectors of the Customs blanks for registering vessels. He...
6978Enclosure: [Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury], March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
An Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury, on which Attachments have been Laid. Time when notice of the Attachment was given at the Office. By whom attached. Proprietors of the Stock. Six &⅌ Cents. Three &⅌ Cents. Deferred. Dollars. Cents. Dollars. Cents. Dollars. Cents. 1793. June 29th: 11 Minutes past 7. A: M: Robert Morris.
6979Enclosure: Schedule A, [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
SCHEDULE A Supposititious Statement of Accounts Between the United States and Individual States. States. Ratio. Balances due to the states respectively. Proportion of each state of the aggregate of those balances according to the ratio. Balances against certain states. Balances in favor of certain states. Proportion of each state in the aggregate of the balances against certain states....
6980Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 8 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 8, 1791. On May 3, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your circular Letter 8th April is received.” Circular not found. ]
6981Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 6 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of an enquiry made of me, I think it necessary to inform you that I consider the holders of Certificates received from the Government of any State in lieu of certificates of the federal debt, as having a right to subscribe those State Certificates to the Loan of the Assumed debt, and I consider the State as having a right to subscribe the continental Certificates which they have...
6982Enclosure B: [List of Petitions for Compensation for Transportation], [16 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
List of petitions for compensation for transportation during the late War. Petition of Christian Knipe. John Smyth Petition of Nathaniel Tracy, and Roger McLean For receipt of these petitions by the House, see Journal of the House , I Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), I. , 391, 518, 374, 503.
6983Appendixes Nos. XXV–XL: Letters from various authors, 5 July 1797–21 July 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
XXV To James Monroe July 5, 1797 XXVI To Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, James Monroe, and Abraham Venable December 17, 1792 XXVII From Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg December 18, 1792 XXVIII From James Monroe December 20, 1792 XXIX From Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg July 10, 1797 XXX From Abraham Venable July 9, 1797 XXXII From James Monroe
6984Enclosure: [Observations on “An Act for Regulating the Military Establishment of the United States”], [27 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
By the Act of Congress 30th. April 1790. The commissioned officers are allowed to receive their daily rations in provisions , “or money in lieu thereof at the option of the said officers at the contract price at the posts respective where the rations shall become due.” By this latitude granted to the officers, the Accountant finds it difficult to ascertain whether the officers have drawn or...
6985Circular Letter from the Officers of the Massachusetts Line of the Late Army, 28 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
We have had the honour to be appointed a Committee, by the Officers of the Massachusetts line of the late Army, to attend to and prosecute their memorial to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of compensation for the losses sustained by them and the soldiers who served during the war, in consequence of the singular manner in which their services have been acknowledged and...
6986Enclosure: [Account Statement with the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures], [18 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Esqr: In A/C with The Society for Establishing useful Manufactures Cr: 1793 1793 Feby. 20 To paid his draft on Benjamin Walker 300.00 Feby. 26 By Cash Advanced Wm. Pearce in Phila. at sundry times 2,340.90 June 8 To Wm. Duer’s Order on F. Ingraham 500 “ “ By ditto ditto George Parkinson