Alexander Hamilton Papers

New York Assembly. Report on a Petition of William Gilbert, 24 February 1787

New York Assembly. Report on a Petition of
William Gilbert

New York, February 24, 1787. On this date Hamilton, as chairman of a committee on a petition of “William Gilbert, and others, Collectors of Tax in the City and County of New-York,” reported that the request of the petitioners for an allowance of six pence in the pound on the proportion of New York City and County of the state quota for 1787 not be granted.1

New York Assembly Journal description begins Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York (Publisher and place vary, 1782–1788). description ends , 1787, 65.

1. The Assembly approved the committee report.

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    New York Assembly. Report on a Petition of William Gilbert, 24 February 1787
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    “New York Assembly. Report on a Petition of William Gilbert, 24 February 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0039. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 4, January 1787 – May 1788, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 100.]