Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 6 January 1791

To George Washington

Treasury Department
January 6th. 1791

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to transmit to the President of the United States an account of the cost of a seal for the use of the District Court of Maine, on which he begs leave to remark, that there does not occur any reason to deem it immoderate. The Legislature having by their resolution of the 2nd. of August last1 assigned a part of the fund provided for the contingent expences of government by their Act of the 26th. day of March last2 to the discharge of this species of claim upon the United States and having committed that sum entirely to the President, he will be pleased to signify whether this account shall be paid at the Treasury, & charged there to that account.

Alexander Hamilton
Secy. of the Treasury

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Resolution IV (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 187).

2. “An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 104–6).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 6 January 1791
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Washington, George
    Date
    6 January 1791

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 6 January 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0291. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790 – January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 419–420.]

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