Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [9 January 1795]

Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund

[Philadelphia, January 9, 1795]

At a Meeting of the Trustees for the redemption of the Public debt; at the Senate Chamber on the 9. of January 1795.

Present

The Vice President of the UStates

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 arising on the Stock standings on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the said trustees, & of Saml. Meredith, treasurer in Trust for the U. States, & due on the 31st of last month, amounts to the sum of Eighteen thousand, six hundred fifty seven Dollars, eighteen Cents & one Mill—Whereupon,

Resolved, that the same be disposed of by the agent of the Trustees in the purchase of the Public Debt, in the manner last prescribed by the board.1

Signed by order of the Board

John Adams.

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. See “Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,” November 18, 1794.

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Title: Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [9 January 1795]
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Date: 9 January 1795

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Cite as: “Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [9 January 1795],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0029. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, pp. 27–28.]