To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 1 June 1790
From William Ellery1
Newport [Rhode Island] June 1, 1790. “I have received your letter of the 17th. of the last month,2 and … now transmit to you … four bundles of Indents … and another package of blank Loan-Office Certife.… I have no bills of credit, known by name of the New Emissions.3 I find by the News papers that an appropriation is made by law for discharging the demands which exist against the United States, and that … a payment of the salaries to the late Loan-Officers of the several States to the 31st. day of Dece. 1789 is authorized.…4 The ballance due to me to that period is 544 89/100 Dolls.…”
LC, Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island.
1. For background to this letter, see Ellery to H, January 10, March 8, 30, 1790; H to Benjamin Huntington, March 19, 1790; Huntington to H, March 19, 1790 (all printed in this volume).
3. For an explanation of the contents of this sentence, see Nathaniel Appleton to H, February 5, 1791, note 1 ( , VIII, 8–9).
4. See Section 5 of “An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety” ( 104–06 [March 26, 1790]).