From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, [25 May 1793]
To Tobias Lear
[Philadelphia, May 25, 1793]
Dear sir,
The proper fund for the payment of the enclosed is the 10,000 Dollars for defraying the contingent Expences of the Government.1 Will you add a few words directing it to be paid out of that fund?
Yours
A Hamilton
25 May 1793.
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.