Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 18 December 1789

From Otho H. Williams

Baltimore, December 18, 1789. Acknowledges receipt of Hamilton’s circular letter of November 30. Discusses difficulty of reconciling exemption of tonnage charges and fees for vessels of less than twenty tons with Section 23 of “An Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the Coasting Trade, and for other purposes.”1 Again asks “Whether two thirds of a Dollar be payable to the Surveyor on small vessels.”2

ALS, RG 53, “Old Correspondence,” Baltimore Collector, National Archives.

1. 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 61 (September 1, 1789).

2. See Williams to H, November 14, 1789.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 18 December 1789
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    Williams, Otho H.
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    18 December 1789

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 18 December 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0032. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 19.]

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