From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 30 March 1792

To Gulian Verplanck

Treasury Department March 30th 1792

Sir

As it will be convenient to you to be apprized of the alterations in the business of the Treasury, which take place from time to time in consequence of arrangements with the Bank of the united States, I think it expedient to inform you, that the receipt and exchange for Specie of the Bank notes and Cash notes of the Institution over which you preside, will be discontinued in the Custom houses out of the City of New York in a few weeks after the receipt of a circular letter written this day.1

I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt Servt

Alexander Hamilton
Secy of the Treasy

The President of the Bank
of New York

LS, The Andre deCoppet Collection, Princeton University Library.

1. See “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” February 21, 1792, note 1.

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Source Project: Hamilton Papers
Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 30 March 1792
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
Recipient: Verplanck, Gulian
Date: 30 March 1792

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Cite as: “From Alexander Hamilton to Gulian Verplanck, 30 March 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-11-02-0173. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 11, February 1792 – June 1792, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, pp. 211–212.]

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