121From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [8 July 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the president of the United States, and has the honor to enclose a Dispatch which he has just received from Georgia. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
122From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the president of the United States, a contract made between the superintendant of the Delaware lighthouse, and Joseph Anthony & Son for oil, the terms of which he humbly conceives to be as favourable to the United States, as could have been effected with any other person for an equal quantity. LC , George Washington Papers,...
123From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, a contract between the superintendant of the establishments on Delaware river, & John Wilson, for building a Beacon-boat to be anchored on the shoals of the said river. On a comparison of the estimate of the said Wilson with that of Warwick Hale herein enclosed, and after due enquiry into...
124From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 29 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, a contract made by the Collector of the District of Washington in North Carolina, for the stakage of all the shoals & channels of the State to the Northward of the District of Wilmington, which have been heretofore thus designated. The former stakes having generally to decay, or being...
125From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 29 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury having had the honor to lay before the president of the United States, the correspondence of Mr. Short respecting the loans made, & to be made, pursuant to the several Acts of Congress for that purpose, begs leave to note particularly for his consideration two circumstances which appear in that correspondence. First, that there are moments when large sums may be...
126From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Conrad Hook and John Naverson for rebuilding the “Lantern Story and all the wooden work of the Light house” in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
127From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Robert McMahin “for plaistering, or rough casting the outside” of the lighthouse in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
128From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [31 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith to the President of the United States the result of the enquiry on the subject of Mr. Drayton. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. H may have misdated this letter to Washington or it was misdated by the copyist, for “the result of the enquiry on the subject of Mr. Drayton” may be found in Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to...
129From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [16 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter from Mr. Brown of Kentucke, to Genl. Irvine, giving an account of some interesting particulars in the Western Country. Part of the letter, I have understood, has been forwarded to you, but not the whole. Genl. Irvine is of opinion that the waters will be still so far practicable as to permit the progress of the Troops under Genl. Butler; by the...
130From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [22 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received a letter from the Minister of France, of which the inclosed is a copy. Having full authority from you in relation to payments to France, & there being funds out of which that which will constitute the succour requested may with propriety be made; and being fully persuaded that in so urgent & calamitous a case, you will be pleased with a ready acquiescence in what is desired, I...
131From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [24 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you a letter of the 8th. of August from Governor St. Clair, together with sundry papers which accompanied it; the whole relating to the subject of the Settlements which have been made under purchases from Judge Symmes. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found. On November 9, 1791, Washington sent St. Clair’s letter to H to Thomas...
132From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [30 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a contract entered into by the Deputy Collector of Wilmington in North Carolina with James McStephens & Henry Toomer for the stakage of the shoals of Cape Fear River. The sum stipulated to be paid, not being considerable, the fixing of new sets of stakes being a part of the business, as...
133From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [6 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Chew having confirmed the character received by you, of Mr. Barratt, I have written to Mr. Vining requesting him to ascertain whether the appointment will be acceptable to him. Mr. Houston of Georgia declines the offer made to him, on the score of want of a familiar acquaintance with figures, and its being inconsistant with the State of his affairs, to translate himself wholly to the seat...
134From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [11 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The Post of this day has brought me your letter of the 7th. instant, the commands of which shall with great care & no less pleasure be executed. I wrote you on the sixth a letter; of which the enclosed is a copy. With the truest & most respectful attachment, I have the honor to remain Sir, &c. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found.
135From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 11 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Lord Wycomb having mentioned to me his intention to pay you his respects at Mount Vernon, I beg your permission to present him to you. The personal acquirements and merits of his Lordship conspire with a consideration for the friendly dispositions and liberal policy of his father, the Marquis of Lansdown, towards this country, to constitute a claim in his favour to cordial notice. I have the...
136From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [16 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 10th. instant. Mine to you of the 6th., which was sent by duplicates, will have informed you of the then state of the business of the Supervisorship of the District of Delaware. I have, within two days, received a letter from Mr. Vining stating that an absence from home had delayed the receipt of my letter, & the ascertaining of Mr. Barratt’s inclination...
137From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a Contract between the Collector of New-London and Nathaniel Richards for the supply of the Light house in that District for one year to end on the first day of October 1792. This agreement is on terms somewhat more favorable than those of the preceding year. A Contract between the...
138From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 22 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, a Contract made by the Collector of Portsmouth for keeping & supplying the Light house at the mouth of that harbour for six months. It is supposed that this agreement has been confined to the term of six months in order to a future commencement in the beginning of the year. The conditions...
139From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 8, 1791. On December 9, 1791, Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson: “Yesterday afternoon Colo. Hamilton was desired, as soon as the Tariff was ready, to let it be known. Enclosed is his answer.” Letter not found. ] GW John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington (Washington, 1931–1944). , XXXI, 442.
140From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [17 January 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President a letter of the 7th. of January 1792. from the Collector of Alexandria, in answer to one written at the direction of the President; and also the Answer of the Collector of Boston to an enquiry in relation to the Keeper of the Lighthouse at Portland. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter from...
141From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 23, 1792. Submits “the draft of a Report, pursuant to an order of the House of Representatives of the first day of November last.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See “Report on the Public Debt and Loans,” January 23, 1792
142From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [25 January 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his respects to the President & submits the following alterations in the Letter— instead of “I shall be glad ” to say “it is my desire” or “it appears adviseable” that you prepare &c. Instead of “When our Constituents ” say “When the Community are called upon for considerable exertions, to relieve a part, which is suffering under the hand of an enemy, it is desireable to...
143From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, February 4, 1792. Transmits “a Contract between the Superintendant of the establishments on Delaware river, & Thomas Conaroe the elder, for repairing the public Piers adjacent to Reeding Island.…” States “that the charge is not disproportioned to what has been usually paid in other similar cases.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. William Allibone.
144From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [13 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President some letters which have recently come to hand respecting the execution of the Excise Law in Kentuckey. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letters not found. “An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in...
145From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [18 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate for the information of the President a letter which he had just received from the Supervisor of North Carolina. The complexion of things there tho’ not pleasing is rather better than worse. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found. The supervisor of the revenue for North Carolina was William Polk.
146From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inclose to the President of the United States, a contract made by the Superintendant of the Lighthouse on the Island of New Castle in the State of Hampshire with Titus Salter for supplying, keeping, lighting, & superintending the occasional repairs of that building. The terms of this Contract being the same as those in the last...
147From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [24 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to return the President the papers received from Mr. Lear, which he has carefully perused, and will wait on the President tomorrow at ten o’Clock accordingly. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The papers which H received from Tobias Lear were apparently the same ones that the President sent to the Secretary of State on February 24,...
148From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States the draft of a Report on the subject of the Act concerning distilled Spirits. There are one or two blanks in the draft, to the filling of which some additional examination & enquiry are requisite. The suggestions however to which they relate are true, as they stand, and the sense will be apparent. The...
149From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to inclose the List of appointments of Inspectors of the Revenue, which took place during the recess of the Senate, as well for ports as Surveys. The President will recollect that the Joseph McDowell who was truly contemplated is “ the younger ” of Pleasant Garden, though described in the Commission & in the List as “ the Elder. ” LC , George...
150From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President of the U: States certain resolutions of the Bank of the U: States, in answer to communications from the Treasury. He will ask the President’s orders on Monday. The first resolution will particularly require attention. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The reports and letters of the Bank of the United...