To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 February 1791
From Jeremiah Olney
Providence, February 28, 1791. Asks Hamilton’s opinion on the “Construction of the Law, relative to the 12 ⅌ Cent allowed for Tare on Sugars &c.”1 Asks if the same “deduction for Tare is allowed” for “Cocoa in Bags” as for coffee.
ADfS, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives.
1. This is provided in Section 35 of “An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels” ( 166 [August 4, 1790]).