9391Executive Order, 22 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President, of the United States of America. An Act making alterations in the arrangements for the security & collection of the Revenue, in the District of No. Carolina. Whereas the arrangement of Surveys of Inspection in the District of North Carolina made by the Act of the President of the United States of the fifteenth day of March 1791 has been found on experience to require revision...
9392Memorandum on a Discussion of the President’s Retirement, 5 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
☞ Read the pages as numbered 1–2 &c Substance of a Conversation with the President 5th. May. 1792. In consequence of a note this morning from the President requesting me to call on him I did so; when he opened the conversation by observing that having some time ago communicated to me his intention of retiring from public life on the expiration of his four years, he wished to advise with me on...
9393From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 13 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
On considering the subject of the clause you wished to have introduced in the inclosed bill, I found it more difficult than I had on first view imagined. Will you make the first trial against the patentee conclusive against all others who might be interested to contest his patent? If you do, he will always have a collusive suit brought against himself at once. Or will you give every one a...
9394Appropriations, [10 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
In the Committee of the Whole debate on the 1794 federal budget, Giles moved the separation of “the estimate of appropriations for the civil list, and for discharging the current expences of the government, from the articles” dealing with military appropriations. The point was to clear the way for appropriations to carry on the daily business of government. Mr. Madison said, that members had...
9395[Diary entry: 18 February 1796] (Washington Papers)
18th. Wind at No. Et. and raing. all day. In the Night Snow abt. one inch thick fell.
9396To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 14 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
When I addressed a private letter to you a few days ago I had no more idea that Monday the 24th. instt. was the day appointed for the meeting of Congress, than I had of its being dooms-day until it was mentioned to me in a letter which I have just received from Mr. Lear (who was under the like mistake). It had taken such deep root in my mind that the last monday in the month was the time that...
9397To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 4 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
My Father lately sent me a Note of your’s requesting some seeds of the Mountain Rice. I am sorry I cannot accommodate you as You would wish, but I do what I can by sending you 40 Seeds by two different opportunities. Inclosed is 20 of them. In the Middle Parts of Hispaniola it is in great Plenty, and I had a Promise of 2 Barrs. A Scarcity of Provisions first, and then the Disturbances have...
9398From Alexander Hamilton to John Meyer, 25 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, June 25, 1794. “Do me the favor, if convenient, to furnish the bearer with Thirty Dollars.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by T. F. Madigan, December, 1935, Lot 108. Meyer was a clerk in the Treasury Department. Extract taken from dealer’s catalogue.
9399From Alexander Hamilton to Walter Stewart, 27 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Since I wrote you last, I have engaged a house for an office , which is at the corner of Chestnut, and, I think, third Street, or in other words, the house of Mr. Coxe, formerly occupied by the President of Congress. I give you this intimation that you may endeavour to procure one for me, as near that as you can, having regard to the quality and situation of the house. One near Mrs. Allen’s...
9400Report Relative to the Loans Negotiated Under the Acts of the Fourth and Twelfth of August, 1790, [13–14 February 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The next most important articles of enquiry, involved in the resolutions of the House of Representatives of the 23d of January last, and in the observations, which have been [made] respecting the conduct of this department, relates to the loans which have been negociated under the Acts of the fourth and twelfth of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. The papers, which have been...