From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 16 May 1794
To Thomas Willing1
Treasury Department, May 16, 1794. “I request that the Bank will advance to the Secretary of State Nine hundred Dollars towards defraying certain expences which have occurred in the West Indies in relation to the public service.…”2
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1. For background to this letter, see the exchange of letters between H and Edmund Randolph, May 16, 1794.
2. This letter is endorsed: “Received the above sum of 900 Dollr. from the Bank of the United States May 18th 1794. Charles L. Carter for Edmund Randolph.”