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From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 7 September 1791

To the President and Directors of the Bank of New York

Ty Dept. 7th Sepr. 1791

Gent.

I request you to furnish the Cashier of your Bank with the further Sum of Fifty thousand Dollars to be by him applied towards purchases of the Public Debt on acct. of the United States.1

P. S. A Warrant will issue tomorrow to cover the 150,000 Dollars already advanced for the same purpose.2

Copy, in the handwriting of William Seton, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. See the second letter William Seton wrote to H on September 5, 1791, and H to Seton, September 7, 1791.

2. See H to Seton, August 15, 16, 1791.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 7 September 1791
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    President and Directors of the Bank of New York
    Date
    7 September 1791

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York, 7 September 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0138. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 182.]

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