1From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The law has not provided for the payment of drawbacks, except the prescribed proofs of landing in some place, without the United States, be adduced. Goods exported for drawback cannot be landed again in the United States, without again paying the impost, under the existing laws, though it ⟨is no⟩t improbable the legislature will provide a remedy in some future act for this inconvenience to...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Abijah Hammond has informed me that he delivered to the Grand Jury, before whom was brought the case of Christopher Bancker, the certificate, on which the charge against him was founded. I wish to know the present state of that affair. I am, sir, With great consideration, Your Obedt Servant LS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. Hammond was a New York City merchant. According...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The carriage of the Teas to Salem, as stated in your letter of the 9th Ultimo is a mere transportation & not an exportation of them. The outward entry must be made in due form at Salem where the Ship America was lying , and can only be made there. That outward entry is the first operation in the business of exportation, and as it will appear by the public books & papers that the goods were...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Olney, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 27th. of December I have to observe, that under the existing laws , I consider it as indispensible to an entry at any customhouse, that the vessel be actually within the district appertaining to it. The question has occurred in the port of Philadelphia, where cases of the nature you mention, frequently happen. The legislature at a late stage of their session...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Pendleton, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I return herewith the proceedings on the petition of Duncan Manson, for the same reason, which has occasioned the remission of those in the case of Wm Backhouse. The circumstance of excuse, for not complying with the law, is the change of Masters in the harbour of Charleston. The time of this change, and the time of departure ought to be known in order to a judgment whether any hurry or...
6To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the honor of your Letter of the 1st. instant. Whenever Mr. John McComb Junr. exhibits the contract signed by you & him the Three Thousand Dollars shall be paid to him as you desire and passed to the Debit of the United States in the Seperate Accounts. On the 16th. of Feby. agreeably to your desire we stopt the sale of the Treasurers Bills on the Collector then in Bank, as...
7From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr. King in these words—“Mr. Elliot, who it has been said was appointed will not come to America, owing say his friends here to a disinclination on his part which has arisen from the death of his eldest or only son. Mr. Seaton yesterday read me an abstract of a letter from London dated February 2. & written, as he observed, by a man of information, which...
8From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 11 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 11, 1791. On May 7, 1791, Washington wrote to Hamilton : “I have received … the opinions offered in your letters of the 11th.” Second letter of April 11 not found. ]
9[Diary entry: 11 April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Monday 11th. Took an early breakfast at Kinners—bated at one Rawlings’s half way between that & Richmd.—and dined at the latter about 3 Oclock. On my arrival was Saluted by the Cannon of the place—waited on by the Governor and other Gentlemen—and saw the City alluminated at Night. GW arrived in Richmond about 2:00 P.M. and during the evening “viewd the Capitol” ( Va. Gaz. [Richmond], 13 April...
10To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr King in these words —“Mr Elliot, who it has been said was appointed will not come to America, owing say his friends here to a disinclination on his part which has arisen from the death of his eldest or only son. Mr Seaton yesterday read me an abstract of a letter from London dated February 2. & written, as he observed, by a man of information, which...