1To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 20 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose you Copies of certain Communications which have been made to me, respecting the Detention of the Registers of Vessels of the United States in some of the Islands of his Christian Majesty, in order that such Measures may be taken as shall appear advisable, towards preventing in future a Practice which has a tendency either to interfere with the Policy of our Laws, or...
2I. The Opinion of Alexander Hamilton, 28 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury conceives it to be his duty most respectfully to represent to the President of the United States, that there are in his judgment, objections of a very serious and weighty nature to the resolutions of the two Houses of Congress of the twenty-first instant, concerning certain arrears of pay, due to the Officers and soldiers of the Lines of Virginia and North...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 9 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, that in a few days, information furnished by the several Departments and otherwise collected, will be laid before the House of Representatives, for the purpose of obtaining appropriations of Money. As the expences &ca. of the Department of State will necessarily require an appropriation, I beg the favour of your directing information to be transmitted to me of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, [16 June 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. He has perused with much satisfaction the draft of his report on the subject of weights and measures. There is no view which Mr. H. has yet taken of the matter which stands opposed to the alteration of the money-unit as at present contemplated by the regulations of Congress either in the way suggested in the report or in that mentioned in...
5XV. Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, 15 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Answers to Questions proposed by The President of the United States to the Secretary of the Treasury Question the first “What should be the answer of the Executive of the United States to Lord Dorchester, in case he should apply for permission to march troops through the territory of said States from Detroit to the Mississippi? Answer In order to a right judgment of what ought to be done in...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 28 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 28 Aug. 1790 . Requests two copies of “An Act making provision for the debt of the United States” and of “An Act making provision for the reduction of the public debt,” together with two copies of his commission as secretary of the treasury, all “certified and exemplified under the Great Seal.” A vessel is expected to sail for Amsterdam in the evening by which he wishes to send some...
7VI. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1791 (Jefferson 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...
8VIII. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1791 (Jefferson 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...
9III. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have perused the papers communicated to you by the Chargé des Affaires of France. The propositions to which they relate, as far as they are understood, appear to me inadmissible. The only advantage they offer to the United States is a prolongation of the time of reimbursement. The rate of interest is to remain the same, and the place of payment, according to the probable course of exchange,...
10IV. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter you sent me from Mr. Short and others which I have received, since mine to you, confirm the view of the subject therein taken. This you will perceive from the following passages extracted from one of them. “Since then (speaking of former overtures) another Company has presented itself for the same object, with a scheme by which the United States are to make the sacrifices on which...