To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 24 November 1790
From Nathaniel Appleton
Boston, November 24, 1790. “I wrote you 20 instant. This serves to transmit a Return of Certificates, Indents & bills of Old Emission rec’d into the Office in the Month of October, for which, Certificates of Funded Debt have been issued agreably to an act of Congress 4 Augst 17901 & your instructions 16th Sept2 last ⟨as⟩ will appear by the Abstract, herewith sent you agreably ⟨to⟩ the form H, in which are stated 137 Accounts which Accts I now transmit & the same number of Receipts for Certificates issued to the several subscribers. I also forward by the Post all the Certificates & Indents rec’d in Octo which are cancelled by crossing them with red Ink; the bills of the Old Emission are not sent for reasons given in my last.…”
LC, RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1785–1791, Vol. “259-M,” National Archives.
1. “An Act making provision for the (payment of the) Debt of the United States” ( 138–44).
2. Circular not found.