Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Morris, 10 November 1792

From Richard Morris1

New York, November 10, 1792. “I anxiously wait to hear from you for tho I should submitt willingly to Expend my own time and money I do not wish to incur the Expence that will Necessarily fall on me for the Clerk, Stamper, Office Rent, fuel, and the Unavoidable Expences of Marking and Guageing the Stills in the Remote Counties.… I hope when the President Reconsiders this Business he will direct the Clk, the Stamper of Certificates, Office Rent, Fuel and the Expence of Guageg. and Marking the Stills in the Remote Counties to be paid as Contingencies.…”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Morris was supervisor of the revenue for the District of New York.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Morris, 10 November 1792
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    Morris, Richard
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    10 November 1792

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Morris, 10 November 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-13-02-0032. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 13, November 1792 – February 1793, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, p. 34.]

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