To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1794

From Alexander Hamilton

Treasury Department May 15th 1794

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit herewith for the President’s signature, the draft of a passport upon application from the French Minister, which is also enclosed.1

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1. On this date GW "Signed a passport for the vessel L’aimable of port de paix (St. Domingo) now at Phila. to depart in ballast & to proceed to sd. Island" (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 303). French minister Jean-Antoine-Joseph Fauchet’s application to Secretary of State Edmund Randolph of 13 May requested a passport for a ship to carry dispatches to the commander there (FrPMAE, Cor. Polit., Etats Unis, 41).

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Title: To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1794
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 15 May 1794

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Cite as: “To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-16-02-0059. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 16, 1 May–30 September 1794, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, p. 73.]

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