79121Excise, [16 January] 1795 (Madison Papers)
In Committee of the Whole, Smith (Maryland) opposed excises hut asked rhetorically, “Why not lay excises on the following, who have excluded the importing of similar articles, and who equally may be said to have obtained a monopoly of the supply of their respective goods? viz: Rope-makers, saddlers, boot-makers, shoe-makers, tanners, curriers, ship-builders, carvers, cabinet-makers,...
79122From Alexander Hamilton to Matthew Clarkson, 15 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 15, 1795. “I am directed by the President to inform you that the Office of Commissioner of loans is at your service, if you incline to accept it. Answer immediately, for a new appointment presses. In either event you will of course say nothing of the offer.” ALS , New York Society Library, New York City. For background to this letter, see H to George Washington, January...
79123To Alexander Hamilton from George Pollock, 15 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 15, 1795. “I have understood from common report that it is Your Intention very shortly to resume your Practice at the Bar…. If … the report be true,… I have to entreat the favour of You to be one of my Counsel in a Cause of great Importance I am now Carrying on against Mr. William Greene, for the recovery of a Respondentia Bond he gave several Years since in Bengal. My...
79124To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Tredwell, 15 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Edenton [ North Carolina ] January 15, 1795 . “I had the Honor to write you on the 29 July last on the subject of two Ports of Delivery within this District Vizt. Winton and Benits Creek…. To fill the Office of Surveyor of Winton … I beg leave to recommend Mr. Laurence Mooney of that place a person in every respect well qualified to discharge the duties of the Office.” ALS , George Washington...
79125From George Washington to James Ross, 15 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
I avail myself of your obliging offer to dispose of the lands I hold in the counties of Fayette & Washington; hereby empowering you to sell the same on the terms which have been mentioned to you. If one fourth of the money is paid at the time of conveyance, or within a short period thereafter, I would allow four, five or six years credit for the other three fourths; provided the payment...
79126Excise, [15 January] 1795 (Madison Papers)
In his 19 November 1794 annual address to Congress, Washington urged “a definitive plan for the redemption of the Public Debt.” On 15 December Smith (South Carolina) reported from committee such a plan ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 3d Cong., 2d sess., 791, 894, 979, 1010). On 15 January the Committee of...
79127To James Madison from Stephen Moylan, 15 January 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 January 1795, Philadelphia. Described as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2); also mentioned in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 694 (1892), item 128.
79128From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Banks, 15 January 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor on the subject of disposing of the Greenbrier lands mortgaged to me, in Philadelphia, and appointing some person there to receive the money for which they are mortgaged. It is certainly much my wish to have the money paid, but having delivered the bonds to Mr. Hanson to collect and apply the money to a particular credit, I can only refer you to him...
79129To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 15 January 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
We intended writing to my Dearest Father from Richmond but that care devolving upon me on account of Mr. Randolph’s business it was as is often the case with me put off till the hurry of packing obliged me to neglect it entirely. Col. Blackden and W. C. Nicholas had both left Richmond before we arrived there the letter for the former was put in the post office imediately that to Mr. Nicholas...
79130To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 14 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
It may be useful in the case of the suit for the carriage tax in Virginia, that the Attorney General be apprized, that by the laws of Virginia, the magistrates, singly, have exclusive Jurisdiction in all cases wherein the sum does not amount to six Dollars. The Carriage tax on some classes, is only one Dollar. The suit however may be brought for the tax upon a Coach or a Chariot, which are Ten...