11To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
As the Law appropriating Ten thousand Dollars for the purpose of defraying the contingent charges of Government (tho’ in that respect not very precise in it’s terms) seems to contemplate the rendering an account from time to time of the disbursement of that sum; I have the honor to enclose three copies of a statement to the end of the year 1792, in order that if it be judged expedient, one may...
12To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 22 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to The President of the U. States a Communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue, of the 18th instant; concerning certain proposals for the maintenance and repairs of Buoys moored at & near the entrance of Charlestown Bay in South Carolina. The most favourable of the two offers, that of William Beedom, appears to the Secretary high; yet...
13To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate, for the perusal of the President, a copy of his second Letter to the H: of Representatives; which he will be obliged, if not inconvenient, to the President, to have returned on Monday morning, to be then sent to the Senate. LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton is referring to his “Report Relative to the Loans Negotiated under the Acts of the Fourth...
14To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. The enclosed Letter just received from the Collector of Charleston contains information & raises a question, which are proper for the eye of the President. LB , DLC:GW . Isaac Holmes’s letter to Hamilton of 16 April has not been identified. GW’s executive journal states that Hamilton delivered Holmes’s letter to the...
15To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to The President of the United States the enclosed communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue. From the nature of the circumstances represented it appears to the Secretary advisable to embrace the offer which is made by Joseph Anthony & son. LB , DLC:GW . On 26 Mar., Hamilton apparently presented this letter to GW along with the...
16To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 5 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Ship John Buckeley is just arrived here from Lisbon, which place she left on the 23d of Februay. The Messrs Walls a respectable Mercantile House here have received a letter from Mr John Buckeley a respectable Merchant of Lisbon, after whom the Ship is named, of which the following is an extract. “By letters from France by this day’s Post, we find, that an Embargo took place there the 2d...
17To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith to the President of the United States three provisional Contracts made by the Collector of Washington in North Carolina, for the stakage of the shoals, sounds &c. within that State, north of the District of Wilmington, accompanied with a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue relative to the subject. The Secretary, from...
18To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to lay before the President sundry papers relating to Ephraim Kirby, which is done merely on the score of propriety, as it is not perceived that any special provision in the case, can be consistently made. LB , DLC:GW . Ephraim Kirby (1757–1804) of Litchfield, Conn., was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. A lawyer, judge, and legal scholar, Kirby...
19To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose for the information of the President a Letter of the 26th of Feby from our Bankers at Amsterdam which came to hand yesterday. LB , DLC:GW . In a letter to Hamilton of 26 Feb. 1793, the Dutch banking firm of Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard declined issuing a new loan to the United States, due to the recent French invasion of the...
20To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The papers of to day, which I take it for granted are forwarded to you will inform you of a confirmation of the War between France England & Holland & of such other leading particulars, as are contained in the English Papers brought by the Packet. The object of this Letter is merely to apprize you—that the whole current of Commercial Intelligence, which comes down to the 11th of Februay,...