2171To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 7 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor most respectfully to transmit for the consideration of the President of the United States, sundry papers relative to a general arrangement of compensations for the officers employed in the collection of the internal Revenues which at the request of the Secretary have been prepared by the Commissioner of the Revenue. The additional latitude on the...
2172To George Washington from the British Board of Agriculture, 6 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
We have the honor to acknowledge your Excellency’s Letter and to inform you that The British Board of Agriculture has unanimously elected your Excellency an Honorary Member, the Diploma for which We have the Honor to inclose by Mr Jay, who was so good as to attend one of our meetings, and who is also one of our Honorary Members, & will inform your Excellency of our Mode of conducting Business,...
2173To George Washington from William Pearce, 5 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 5 April 1795. On 12 April, GW wrote Pearce: “Your letter of the 5th, with its enclosures, I received yesterday.”
2174To George Washington from Mrs. Provost, 5 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
La Confiance que m’in[s]pire votre Caractere, et tous les actes de bienfaisance dont vous avez bien voulu recompenser les services des Officiers qui ont servi, pendant la guerre de l’amerique, en eux, ou en leur famille, me porte a vous exposer ma situation et celle de mes Enfans, persuadée que votre humanité vous engagera a nous accorder tous les secours possibles. je suis veuve de Mr de...
2175To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 4 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letter from Genl Wayne has just arrived at this office. Peace with the Indians seems no longer doubtful. The act of Congress correcting an error in a former act about the bounty to soldiers who should reinlist, was passed the 29th of January, and on the 31st I forwarded it with that to which it related, to General Wayne, for his information on the subject of recruiting. His letter...
2176To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of The Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to The President of the United States, the enclosed communication from the Commissioner of the revenue stating the terms upon which a contract has been made for procuring nine chains for the use of the Buoys stationed off St Mary’s river, the harbour of Charleston, and the entrance of Chesapeak bay. It appears to the Secretary...
2177To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of the Trustees for the redemption of the Public Debt, at the Senate Chamber on the 4th of April 1795. Present, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Treasury, The Attorney General; The Certificate of the Register of the Treasury being read, by which it appears that the quarterly interest of the Stock standing on the Books of the Treasury to the credit of the said Trustees...
2178To George Washington from Samuel Coleman, 3 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have, with a transport which I might in vain attempt to describe, perused the letter, which you have been pleased to address to Governor Brooke on the appropriation of the Shares in the Potowmack and James River Companies, and which reflects the highest additional lustre on your character as Father of your Country. The pleasure which I feel is not the effect of a Stupid Vanity arising from a...
2179To George Washington from John Carey, 2 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the ship Friends, captain Bacon, I have the honor of transmitting to Your Excellency a copy of your letters to Congress, written during the first four years of that memorable contest, which, under your auspices, so happily terminated in the establishment of American Independence. If, in any passage, I have mistaken your sense, if, by any errors of the press, it is obscured, permit me, Sir,...
2180To George Washington from Jean Savary de Valcoulon, 2 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Kindness with which your Excellency has taken the trouble to answer by writing to my plan, encourage me to make to your objections some observations by way of explanation to it; rather to Justify the intentions of its author in his ideas of practicableness, than in the design to change the determination of your Excellency. my project in its origin was confined only to a settlement of a...