From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [7 April 1794]
To George Washington1
[Philadelphia, April 7, 1794]
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President and has the honor to transmit a resolution of the Committee of Inquiry into the state of the Treasury Department, of the 5. instant which came to his hand this morning,2 together with the paper to which it relates.3 The Committee meet again tomorrow Evening.4
Monday April 7. 1794
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. For background to this letter, see the introductory note to H to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, December 16, 1793. See also H to the Select Committee Appointed to Examine the Treasury Department, March 24, 1794; H to Washington, March 24, April 1, 1794; Abraham Baldwin to H, March 29, April 5, 1794; “Report on Principles and Course of Proceeding with Regard to the Disposition of the Moneys Borrowed Abroad by Virtue of the Acts of the Fourth and Twelfth of August, 1790, as to the Point of Authority,” April 1, 1794.
3. “Report on Principles and Course of Proceeding with Regard to the Disposition of the Moneys Borrowed Abroad by Virtue of the Acts of the Fourth and Twelfth of August, 1790, as to the Point of Authority,” April 1, 1794.
4. According to the minute book of the committee, the meeting of Saturday, April 5, 1794, was adjourned until Tuesday, April 8, 1794. The next entry in the minute book, however, is for Thursday, April 10, 1794, when H “attended, and produced the answer of the Presidt. to the resolution of the Commee. on Saturday last, respecting authorities for drawing monies borrowed abroad to the United States” (D, Papers of the Select Committee Appointed to Examine the Treasury Department, Third Congress, National Archives).