Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [13 February 1792]

To George Washington

[Philadelphia, February 13, 1792]

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President some letters which have recently come to hand1 respecting the execution of the Excise Law2 in Kentuckey.

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1Letters not found.

2“An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston, 1845). description ends 199–214 [March 3, 1791]).

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