Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 28 October 1790

To Sharp Delany1

Treasury Department Octr. 28. 1790.

Sir

The Act imposing duties on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels declares that this charge shall accrue when vessels “shall be entered in the United States from a foreign port or place.”2 That entry can never have preceded the application for a Register for a new Ship, and consequently the Tonnage cannot be then demanded. New Vessels applying for coasting licences are charged upon a different principle. The Certificate of payment at the time of obtaining an enrollment and licence is made a requisite to their running free of Tonnage thro’ the subsequent year. I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your Obedt. Servant

A Hamilton

Sharp Delany Esqr.
Collector of the Customs
Philadelphia.

LS, Bureau of Customs, Philadelphia; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Philadelphia, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives.

1. This letter was written in reply to Delany to H, October 26, 1790.

2. 1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 135 (July 20, 1790).

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 28 October 1790
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Delany, Sharp
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    28 October 1790

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 28 October 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0130. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790 – January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 128–129.]

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