To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 3 January 1793
From Tench Coxe
Treasury Department
Revenue Office, January 3d. 1793.
Sir,
In compliance with the direction in your letter of the 2d. instant,1 I have the honor to inform you that the following persons are employed in this office.
| William Barton, principal | Clerk | at | 800 | Dollars ⅌ Annm. |
| John Mease | Clerk | at | 400. | |
| Peter Footman | do. | at | 400 | |
| Ezekiel Forman | do. | at | 400 | |
| Michael Gitts, Messenger & Office keeper | 200 | |||
| Dollars. | 2200 | |||
The Establishment of this Office having been made at a stage of the last session,2 when there was not time to place the Clerks upon as good a footing as the legislature have been pleased to ordain in regard to the others, I take occasion to observe that at a convenient opportunity I could wish in Justice to the persons employed it may be submitted to Congress.
I have the honor to be with great respect Sir, your most Obt. Servant
Tench Coxe,
Commissr. of the Revenue
The honble.
The Secretary of the Treasury.
LC, RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives.
1. Letter not found.
2. The office of commissioner of the revenue had been established on May 8, 1792. See Section 6 of “An Act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments” ( 280–81).