31From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 22 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
You will find enclosed an open letter for the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit (or the Branch of the Bank of the United States) at Boston, by which you will perceive that you are to obtain from them the sum of thirty thousand Dollars, if you shall have occasion for it, to pay the quarter’s interest. You are first to avail yourself of all the specie in the hands of the Collector...