1From Alexander Hamilton to the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, 26 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that you will be pleased to advance to The Honorable Jonathan Trumbull Esqr. the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars; on Account of the compensations due to the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States. As I have been informed, that the Bill making appropriations for the present year has passed both Houses of Congress, I hope to have it in my power very shortly...