From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 July 1793

To George Washington1

Treasy. Dept. July 23d. 1793.

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to The President a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 19 instant.2

The establishment of the compensation to the Keeper of the Portsmouth Light House at the rate therein mentioned3 appears to the Secretary to be a proper measure.

A Hamilton

LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

1. For background to this letter, see H to Washington, June 22, 1793, and Tobias Lear to H, July 18, 1793.

2. Letter from Tench Coxe not found.

3. According to an entry in JPP description begins “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. description ends for July 24, 1793, the lighthouse keeper’s salary was fixed at one hundred and eighty dollars per year (JPP description begins “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. description ends , 185).

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Source Project: Hamilton Papers
Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 July 1793
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 23 July 1793

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 July 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-15-02-0099. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 15, June 1793 – January 1794, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 123.]

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