101To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 22 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received a letter from the Minister of France, of which the inclosed is a copy. Having full authority from you in relation to payments to France, & there being funds out of which that which will constitute the succour: requested may with propriety be made; and being fully persuaded that in so urgent & calamitous a case, you will be pleased with a ready acquiescence in what is desired. I...
102To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mr Chew having confirmed the character received by you, of Mr Barratt, I have written to Mr Vining requesting him to ascertain whether the appointment will be acceptable to him. Mr Houston of Georgia declines the offer made to him, on the score of want of a familiar acquaintance with figures, and its being inconsistent with the State of his affairs, to translate himself wholly to the seat of...
103To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 10th instant. Mine to you of the 6th, which was sent by duplicates, will have informed you of the then state of the business of the Supervisorship of the District of Delaware. I have, within two days, received a letter from Mr Vining stating that an absence from home had delayed the receipt of my letter, & the ascertaining of Mr Barratt’s inclination in...
104To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department, Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1791. Submits two contracts: one between the collector of New London, Conn., and Nathaniel Richards for supplying the lighthouses in that district for one year, to end on 1 Oct. 1792, the terms of which were somewhat more favorable than those of the preceding year; and another between the collector of New London and the keeper of the lighthouse there,...
105To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 17 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President a letter of the 7th of January 1792 from the Collector of Alexandria, in answer to one written at the direction of the President; and also the Answer of the Collector of Boston to an enquiry in relation to the Keeper of the Lighthouse at Portland. LB , DLC:GW . Neither of the enclosures has been found (see Syrett,...
106To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit the draft of a Report, pursuant to an Order of the House of Representatives of the first day of November last; and to be With the highest respect & most faithful Attachment, Sir, Your Most Obedient & hble Servant LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure was a copy of Alexander Hamilton’s report on the public debt and loans, dated 23 Jan. 1792, which he transmitted to the House of...
107II: From Alexander Hamilton, c.25 Jan. 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hamilton presents his respects to the President & submits the following alterations in the Letter. instead of “I shall be glad ” &c. to say “it is my desire” or “it appears adviseable” that you prepare &c. Instead of “when our Constituents ” &c. Say [“]When the Community are called upon for considerable exertions, to relieve a part, which is suffering undr the hand of an enemy, it is...
108To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President of the United States a Contract between the Superintendant of the establishments on Delaware river, & Thomas Conaroe the elder for repairing the public Piers adjacent to Reeding Island in the said river. This contract was transmitted at a moment when the absence of the President rendered the submission of it...
109To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 13 Feb. 1792. Communicates “some letters which have recently come to hand respecting the execution of the Excise Law in Kentuckey.” LB , DLC:GW . The enclosures have not been identified. Residents of the Kentucky District of Virginia earlier had petitioned the U.S. House of Representatives to suspend collection of the federal excise tax on distilled spirits in the district until...
110To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate for the information of the President a letter which he has just received from the Supervisor of North Carolina. The complexion of things there tho’ not pleasing is rather better than worse. LB , DLC:GW . For the background to this letter, which probably involved difficulties in collecting the excise tax on distilled spirits, see GW to...
111To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department, Philadelphia, 23 Feb. 1792. Submits a contract made by the superintendent of the New Castle Island lighthouse in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for supplying, keeping, lighting, and superintending the occasional repairs of that building and humbly opines that it is not disadvantageous to the United States, as its terms are the same as those in the last agreement for the...
112To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States the draft of a report on the subject of the Act concerning distilled Spirits. There are one or two blanks in the draft, to the filling of which some additional examination & enquiry are requisite. The suggestions however to which they relate are true, as they stand, and the sense will be apparent. The...
113To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President of the U: States certain resolutions of the Bank of the U: States, in answer to communications from the Treasury. He will ask the President’s orders on Monday. the first resolution will particularly require attention. LB , DLC:GW . For the background to the establishment of the Bank of the United States in late...
114To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President a letter which he has drafted in answer to one from the Minister Plenipotentiary of France, and which contains such Ideas as have appeared to him compatible with the Law, with the state of the Treasury and with a liberal attention to the conjuncture. He will wait on the President this evening for his orders, as Mr Ternant...
115To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President of the United States a Petition to the President from Samuel Davis of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, together with the papers from the files of the Treasury relative thereto. These last are transmitted with the Petition at the request of the honorable Mr Bourne of that State, who has...
116To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President the draft of a report on the subject of ways & means for carrying into execution the Military bill. He will wait on the President tomorrow morning for his Orders; as it is interesting there should be no avoidable delay. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed draft of Hamilton’s Report Relative to the Additional Supplies for the Ensuing...
117To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to The President a letter which he has just received from Mr Short. It communicates the agreeable information of a Loan at four per Cent. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter of William Short to Hamilton was either that of 23 or 28 Dec. 1791, both of which announced the new loan completed at Amsterdam (see Syrett, Hamilton Papers, Harold...
118II: From Alexander Hamilton, 4 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President of the United States. He was informed, yesterday, by the Attorney General, that his opinion concerning the constitutionality of the Representation Bill was desired this morning. He now sends it with his reasons but more imperfectly stated than he could have wished—through want of time. He has never seen the bill, but from the...
119To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hamilton presents his respects to the President. Herewith are testimonials in favor of two Candidates for the Office of Treasurer of the Mint, Wm A. McCrea who has been mentioned by Mr Foster of the Senate, and James Abercrombie who is recommended by a number of respectable characters. LB , DLC:GW . Senator Theodore Foster wrote directly to GW on 2 April from Philadelphia that McCrea was “a...
120To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President a resolution of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund as of this morning. A particular piece of urgent business prevents personally waiting on the President with it. It is very much to be desired that the resolution may receive the immediate decision of the President. It is upon the same principles with the last. LB ,...
121To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to transmit to the President a copy of his letter of the 8. of March to the minister Plenipotentiary of France, on the subject of an advance of money, and another of the minister’s answer; in order that the President may be pleased to cause the necessary instructions to be sent through the proper department to the minister Plenipotentiary of the...
122To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 23 April 1792. Submits “the enclosed communications respecting an instance of misconduct in the Collector of Newbury Port.” LB , DLC:GW . The enclosures have not been identified. Stephen Cross, the collector for the port of Newburyport, Mass., was immediately removed from office (see Cross to Hamilton, 18 Oct. 1792, Syrett, Hamilton Papers, Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The...
123To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department, 24 April 1792. Submits a contract for oil between the superintendent of the Delaware lighthouse and Joseph Anthony & Son of Philadelphia, the terms of which are not unfavorable to the United States, as they have not changed from the previous two years. Nothing better had been offered after an advertisement for proposals was published, and it is understood that the wardens...
124To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 30 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to communicate to the President authenticated copies of the Contracts for the three last loans made in Europe; that for 6000000 of Florins at Amsterdam bearing date 14. of December 1791 at a rate of 5 ⅌ Cent Interest that for 3000000 of Florins at Antwerp, at a rate of 4½ ⅌ Cent Interest bearing date the 30th day of November 1791 and the...
125To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department, 9 May 1792. Transmits “a fair copy of the Draft approved by the President this morning respecting the Port of Entry & Delivery in the District of Vermont.” LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure says “that pursuant to the provision in that behalf made by the Act intitled ‘An Act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the Frontiers, and for other purposes therein...
126To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send herewith an adjustment at the Treasury concerning the quantity of Acres in Warrants for army bounty rights, which ought to be deemed an equivalent for the 214,285, Acres of land mentioned in the second enacting clause of the Act intitled “An Act authorising the grant and conveyance of certain Lands to the Ohio Company of Associates”; and a Certificate of the delivery...
127To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I left the City of Philadelphia this Morning on my way to Newark as I mention’d to you previous to your departure. Nothing new had occurred. Mr Belli was furnished with the requisite sum for the purchase of Dragoon Horses in Kentucke, in conformity to an arrangement, which I understand [from] the Secretary at War, was made pursuant to your direction. The Quarter Master General also has had an...
128To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I returned here yesterday from New Ark, & find that nothing material has occurred in my absence. There is nothing new except what is contained in the papers, and what I doubt not has been announced to you from the War Department—the Convention between Hamtramck and certain Tribes on the Wabash. With the most perfect respect and truest attachment, I have the honor to be &c. LB , DLC:GW ....
129To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 31 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to inform the President of the Unit’d States that the place of Keeper of the Light house on Thatcher’s Island in the State of Massachusetts has become vacant by the death of Mr Hustin. The following persons are respectably recommended—Joseph Sayword—Henry White—Samuel Hustin, son of the deceas’d Keeper, and— Rowe. The first is strongly recommended...
130To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the Ud States a provisional Contract entered into between the Superintendent of the Delaware Lighthouse and Abraham Hargis for sinking a well for the accomodation of that Light house; together with a report of the Commissioner of the Revenue on the subject, & some explanatory statements. The Secretary has delayed this...
131To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to The President of the United States a Report of the Commissioner of the Revenue on the Subject of a certain Pier to be erected in the River Delaware, in lieu of one previously established there which was carried away by the Ice at the breaking up of the River in the last Spring. After the best examination which the Secretary...
132To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 28 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to The President of the United States the copy of a Report of this date from The Commissioner of the Revenue, on the subject of certain provisional contracts, which have been entered into for the stakeage of certain waters in North Carolina. He sees no cause to doubt the reasonableness of these Contracts. The higher rate of that for Neuse...
133To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 2 July 1792. Encloses “the sketch of a letter to be written by Mr Lear to Mr Langdon.” LB , DLC:GW . For the appointment of Woodbury Langdon as one of the commissioners to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual states for the expense of the Revolutionary War, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 23 Dec. 1790 . For the acts of Congress regarding the settlement of...
134To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States the inclosed Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse &[c]a and Benjamin Rice, for the making of two Mooring chains for the use of the Beacon boats on the River Delaware, together with sundry papers relating thereto. The object appears to be a necessary one, & the...
135To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 16 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Resolution of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the 16th inst:, for your consideration and approbation. My absence from Town and hurry after my return, prevented the making of the arrangement before you left this place. I shall hope to receive your determination previous to the day which limits the receiving of proposals, as the purchases must be made...
136To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 22 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Private Sir Philadelphia July 22 1792 I wrote to you on Monday last, transmitting a resolution of the Commissioners of the Sinking fund. Nothing in the way of public business requiring your attention has since occurred. There is a matter I beg leave to mention to you confidentially in which your interposition, if you deem it, adviseable, may have a good effect. I have long had it at heart that...
137To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Samuel Hobart, third Mate of the Cutter on the New Hampshire Station, has tendered his resignation and sent forward his Commission which I retain ’till your return not to encumber you with it at Mount Vernon. This occasions two vacancies, as to that Cutter, of first & third Mate. The Collector of Portsmouth recommends the second Mate, John Adams, for first Mate, and a Benjamin Gunnison, who...
138To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 30 July–3 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I received the most sincere pleasure at finding in our last conversation, that there was some relaxation in the disposition you had before discovered to decline a reelection. Since your departure, I have lost no opportunity of sounding the opinions of persons, whose opinions were worth knowing, on these two points—1st the effect of your declining upon the public affairs, and upon your own...
139To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 30 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith sundry papers relative to an arrangement, which has been concerted between the Commissioner of the Revenue and myself, on the subject of compensation to the Officers of Inspection, in consequence of additional latitude given to The President of the United States by the Act of the last Session entitled, An Act concerning the duties on spirits distilled...
140To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 3 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 25th of July, on the subject of a provisional Contract for the supply of the Lighthouse in New Hampshire; together with the Contract for your consideration & decision. I agree in the opinion expressed by the Commissioner of the Revenue. With the most perfect respect and truest attachment, I have the honor to be...
141To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 10 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your Letters of the 1st and 5th instant. A copy of the latter is enclosed according to your desire. You may depend upon it, Sir, that nothing shall be wanting in this Department to furnish all requisite supplies for the Army with efficiency & œconomy, and to bring to exact account all persons concerned in them as far as shall consist with the powers of the...
142To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have already written to you to go by this Post. This is barely to inform you, that I have made the communication you desired to Mr Kean, who promises every possible exertion—and that Mr Langdon has been here about a fortnight. With perfect respect & attachment I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant P.S. I have made progress in certain answers; but shall scarcely be ready to send...
143To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I am happy to be able, at length, to send you, answers to the objections, which were communicated in your letter of the 29th of July. They have unavoidably been drawn in haste, too much so, to do perfect justice to the subject, and have been copied just as they flowed from my heart and pen, without revision or correction. You will observe, that here and there some severity appears—I have not...
144To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the Act of the last Session entitled “An Act supplementary to the Act making provision for the Debt of the United States,” authority is given to discharge the debts due to foreign Officers out of the monies which the President is authorised to borrow by the Act making provision for the Debt of the United States. The sum authorised to be borrowed by the last mentioned Act is 12.000.000. of...
145To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose sundry papers which have been handed to me by the Commissioner of the Revenue, respecting the state of the Excise Law in the western survey of the District of Pennsylvania. Such persevering and violent opposition to the Law gives the business a still more serious aspect than it has hitherto worn, and seems to call for vigorous & decisive measures on the part of the...
146To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the honor of your Letter of the 31st of August. Letters from the Supervisor of North Carolina confirm the representation contained in the letter from the Inspector of the 5th Survey to you. My letter which accompanies this suggests the measure which, on mature reflection, has appeared most proper to be taken upon the whole subject of the opposition to the Law. If the idea...
147To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure of your private letter of the 26th of August. The feelings and views which are manifested in that letter are such as I expected would exist. And I most sincerely regret the cause of the uneasy sensations you experience. It is my most anxious wish, as far as may depend upon me, to smooth the path of your administration, and to render it prosperous and happy. And if any...
148To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you by the post of Monday last, and then transmitted Sundry papers respecting a Meeting at Pittsburg on the 21st of August, and other proceedings of a disorderly nature, in opposition to the Laws laying a duty on distilled spirits; and I added my opinion, that it was adviseable for the Government to take measures for suppressing these disorders, & enforcing the...
149To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Herewith is an official letter submitting the draft of a Proclamation. I reserve some observations as most proper for a private letter. In the case of a former proclamation I observe it was under the seal of the U. States and countersigned by the Secretary of State. If the precedent was now to be formed I should express a doubt whether it was such an instrument as ought to be under the seal of...
150To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 17 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Representations have been made by the Collector of the Customs at Edenton, and the Inspector of the Revenue for the third Survey of North Carolina, that Thomas Davis Freeman Surveyor of the Port of Plymouth and Inspector of the Revenue for the same, has been absent from that Port since February last. As it is stated in those representations, that it is not known whither that Officer has gone,...