From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 22 March 1793
To Jonathan Burrall
Treasury Department
March 22d. 1793
Sir
You will, if you can, invest the fifty thousand Dollars heretofore put under your disposition1 in the purchase of good bills on London or Amsterdam, if they can be obtained within the limit of four per Cent below par; so as to be forwarded to me by the first of April; I mean to reach me on that day by the Post.
I will thank you in the mean time to advise me dayly of the price of bills.
I am with consideration Sir Your obedient serv
Alex Hamilton
Jonathan Burrall Esquire
ALS, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.