471Report on Duties Arising on Tonnage, for the Year Ending September 30, 1790, [6 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that prior to the receipt of the order of the House of Representatives of the 30th. ultimo, the formation of several returns of the nature of those designated in their resolution, had been commenced at the Treasury. It had been deemed expedient to make them up, so as to include the space of one year, in order that they might exhibit the annual course of that...
472From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 6 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to transmit to the President of the United States an account of the cost of a seal for the use of the District Court of Maine, on which he begs leave to remark, that there does not occur any reason to deem it immoderate. The Legislature having by their resolution of the 2nd. of August last assigned a part of the fund provided for the...
473Report on Duties on Imports, [7 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
In addition to the papers transmitted yesterday, I have the honor to inclose you two Abstracts of the Duties on Imports into the United States; one exhibiting the sum received from the commencement of the operation of the impost act, to the 30th. of September 1789; and the other shewing, as far as the returns have been transmitted, the sum received for one year following that day. None of the...
474From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to transmit to the President of the United States a Contract made by the Collector of Portsmouth in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for furnishing the Light house on New Castle Island with oil, wick, fuel & candles, and for the care & lighting of the same from the 15th. day of August 1789. to the 1st. day of July next, including some...
475From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused with attention your intended report to the President; and will, as I am sure is your wish, give you my opinion with frankness. As far as a summary examination enables me to judge, I agree in your interpretation of the Treaty. The exemption sought does not appear to be claimable as a right. But I am not equally well satisfied of the policy of granting it on the ground you...
476Treasury Department Circular to the Commissioners of Loans, 11 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 11, 1791. On January 26, 1791, Nathaniel Appleton wrote to Hamilton : “Your circular favour of 11 instant is recd.” Circular not found. ]
477From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [13 January 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you for the printed papers you have been so obliging as to send. I cannot forbear a conjecture that the communications of the Chargé des affaires of France are rather expedients to improve a moment, in which it is perceived questions concerning navigation are to be discussed than the effects of serious instructions from his Court. Be this as it may I really have not thought of any...
478Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 14 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is necessary to the adjustment of the public accounts, that the officers of the Treasury should be informed what sums in final settlement certificates were paid over to the several states by the agents for settling the accounts of their respective lines in the late army. The statements of those agents are the only documents on the subject of which the United States are possessed, and it...
479From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 17 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 17, 1791. Encloses “the Presidents commission for Mr. Joseph Greenleaf as keeper of the light house of Portland.” LS , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters and Papers re Lighthouses, Buoys, and Piers, Vol. 4, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at Boston, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,”...
480From Alexander Hamilton to John Wheelock, 18 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 18, 1791. On the verso of Wheelock’s letter to Hamilton on November 8, 1790, Hamilton wrote : “Answered January 18. 1791.” Letter not found. ]