29501Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [15 August 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the United States, on the 15th day of August, 1791: Present: The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General. The Secretary of the Treasury having informed the Board, that a further sum, amounting, probably to between three and four hundred thousand dollars, may be applied, in pursuance of the act...
29502From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is a resolution of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund appropriating a certain sum for the purchase of public Debt within certain limits therein specified. In consequence of that resolution I have concluded to apply One hundred and fifty thousand dollars towards purchases in the city of New York and to ask you to undertake the execution of the business. In thus forbearing to employ some...
29503To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored with your Letter of the 4th. From the very sudden turn that Speculation has taken We have only now remaining in Bank of the Treasurers Bills on Collectors undisposed of No. 1648 for 200 Dollars on I. Gregory, Cambden 1339 50 on G. Biscoe, Nottingham It is certainly of considerable importance & a great accomodation to the mercantile Interest of this City that the Bank be furnished...
29504From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Conrad Hook and John Naverson for rebuilding the “Lantern Story and all the wooden work of the Light house” in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
29505From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 15, 1791. Recommends that the President accept the bid of Robert McMahin “for plaistering, or rough casting the outside” of the lighthouse in South Carolina. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Tobias Lear to H, August 15, 1791 .
29506To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, August 16, 1791. On August 17, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Duer : “I have received your two letters of the 12th and 16th.” Letter of August 16 not found. ]
29507From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You will please to cause to be paid to Willm. Seton Esqr such sums not exceeding in the whole One Hundred & fifty Thousand Dollars as he may require to be applied by him towards purchases of the Public Debt at the request of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund. The advances you shall make, when known, will be covered in the requisite forms. Yours &c Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton,...
29508From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you herewith an official letter. This private one I write as explanatory of it. I hardly expect that you will be able to procure the debt within the limits prescribed—And yet I do not know what effect the imprudent speculations in Bank Script may produce. A principal object with me is to keep the Stock from falling too low in case the embarrassments of the dealers should lead to...
29509To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Smith, 16 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I now inclose accts of stock remaining on the Books of this office the 30th June 1791. I have paid the whole of the Indents last received & people are now waiting for Interest in Indents on their Certificates. I have the honor to be &c. Copy, RG 53, Pennsylvania State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1790–1794, Vol. “615-P,” National Archives. Smith was commissioner of loans for the state of...
29510Contract with Thomas Marshall, 17 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 17, 1791. The minutes of the proceedings of the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures for December 9, 1791, read: “The Governor laid before the Board a Letter from Collo Alexander Hamilton, enclosing an Agreement entered into by the said Colo Hamilton in behalf of the Society… and Thomas Marshal dated 17th. August 1791.” Contract not found. ]...