1To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel A. Otis, 8 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 8, 1792. On June 8, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Otis : “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of this date.” Letter not found. ] Otis, who was secretary of the Senate, was the younger brother of James Otis and the father of Harrison Gray Otis.
2From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel A. Otis, 8 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of this date. Although it would afford me much pleasure to Contribute to your accomodation, yet in the present case I cannot consider myself at liberty to comply with your requisition, inasmuch as it is repugnant to the established usage of the Treasury. I am with Consideration Sir Your Most Obedient Servant LS , RG 46, Second Congress,...
3Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 8 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The 66, 67 and 68th sections of the Collection Law, make provision respecting the prosecution, receipt, appropriation and distribution of and for fines, penalties and forfeitures, under that act. The provision is less precise and clear than could be wished, and may require legislative revision. In the mean time it is indispensable that some arrangement should be made and observed; consulting...
I herewith send you a copy of a Circular letter which I have this day written to the Collectors of the Customs. The arrangement therein suggested will conduce very much to the order of the business of the Treasury, and is presumed to be conformable with law. 1 feel a confidence that it will meet with the chearful co-operation of the several Courts and their respective Officers, and that the...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 8 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 4th instant, concerning the Cutter, Active, I refer you to mine of the 5th. With regard to the addition of 10 ⅌ Ct to be made to the several rates of duties, in respect to all goods, Wares and Merchandizes imported in Ships or Vessels not of the United States, agreeably to the 2d Section of the Act “making further provision for the payment of the debt &ca,” I am...
6From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 8 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The bearer of this, Mr James Hoben, was strongly recommended to me by Colo. Laurens and sevral other Gentlemen of So. Carolinia when I was there last year, as a person who had made architecture his study, and was well qualified not only for planning or designing buildings, but to superintend the execution of them. He informs me that he intends to produce plans of the two buildings next month...
7To George Washington from James Iredell and John Sitgreaves, 8 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
We the Judges now attending at the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Carolina, conceive it our duty to lay before you some important observations which have occurred to us in the consideration of an act of Congress lately passed, entitled, “An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and...
8To George Washington from Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 8 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Speaker of the Senate of Pennsylvania will have the Honor to wait on the President of the United States and Mrs Washington on Thursday next. Mrs Powel has the Pleasure to present her respectfull Compliments to them and to express her Regrets that she cannot have the Honor of dining with them upon that Day. L , ViMtvL . Samuel Powel served as Speaker of the Pennsylvania senate from 1792...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, [8 June 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
I was going to acknolege th[e receipt of yours of Jany. 5th. and Feb.] 15. when I was seised with a yearning of [the heart, which] obliges me to stop till I could write the inclosed. He is a good man to whom it is addressed, and he is himself the bearer of it. I shall make it the subject of a conversation with him. I thought it would not be disagreeable to you to enter with him the claim we...
10To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 8 June 1792. Having deferred sending these packets until now, he forwards them without being able to add his opinions on the affairs of Europe. The French, who ought to do everything, do nothing; the Prussians march and do not arrive; the English and Dutch fortunately remain observers. Providence seems to control events that disturb courts and their diplomacy, such as the war Russia...