91From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [8 March 1792] (Hamilton 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...
92From Alexander Hamilton to John Daves, 9 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 9, 1792. “You will receive by the first Vessel, for North Carolina from this Port the several articles for the use of the Revenue Cutter, which you desire.…” Copy, RG 56, Letters to the Collector at New Bern, National Archives; copy, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Revenue Cutter Service Letters Sent, Vol. “O,” National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters to...
93To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Marshall, 9 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Buck-pond [ Virginia ] March 9, 1792. “Permit me to return you my grateful thanks for your very polite & friendly letter accompanying the Commission of Inspector of Revenue for the seventh survey of the District of Virginia.…” ALS , RG 58, General Records, 1791–1803, National Archives. Thomas Marshall, father of John Marshall, had served in various county and state offices in Virginia before...
94To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 9 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
After much enquiry, I have found a house which would accommodate my numerous family, and at the same time give me office-room. The greatly extended business of the department, I think may be accomplished with the same help which has been used since the time of Mr. Osgoods appointment, to wit, an assistant and clerk. For these, with their necessary writing desks, table, boxes, cases & shelves,...
95From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 9 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 9, 1792. “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.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this...
96To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 9 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I conceive it to be a duty incumbent on me to mention to you that the ill State of Health of the Judge of this district has prevented his attendance at the two last Courts, in consequence of which two actions brought to that Court on Bonds for Impost duties have failed in their expected issue, and I have been induced to put a third in Suit at the State Court of Common Pleas to avoid the like...
97To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The last grant of money for defraying the contingent and other expences of the Department of State having been laid out, and the account thereof and vouchers presented at the Auditor’s office for settlement and settled, I have to request the favour of your directing a warrant for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be issued for the payment of such expences as may arise in future. I...
98Report on Tonnage and Imports for the Several States, 10 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to the order of the Senate, of the 8th instant, I have the honor to transmit thirteen returns exhibiting, as accurately as is practicable, the various descriptions of vessels employed during the year ending the 30th September, 1790, in the import trade of each State at that time comprehended in the Union, together with the foreign places from whence they departed for the United...
99To Alexander Hamilton from Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 10 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
J’ai recu votre reponse à ma lettre d’avant hier; et d’après l’assurance que vous me donnez du remboursement total de ce qu’il y a d’exigible sur la dette des Etats unis envers la france, ainsi que de la necessité où la loi met votre gouvernement de ne faire des remboursemens anticipés qu’à des conditions avantageuses, je ne puis qu’accepter l’avance que vous etes disposé de faire, et acceder...
100To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have examined the papers transmitted to me from your Office and find it duly certified that State Securities were issued in lieu of Certificates of the United States to the amount of £470,649..17..6. And that there have been paid in & cancelled in State Certificates which issued particularly for Certificates of the United States the sum of £91.363…9..8. And that Certificates of the...
101From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, [11 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I hoped ere this to have sent you the calculation desired. But it happens that the Gentleman of my Office whom I usually employ on such occasions is unwell and I have been too much engaged myself to test by calculation the idea which has been in my mind. Of this however you are sure that the charges being 4 ⅌ Ct and the interest for 6 Months 2½ ⅌ Ct 6½ ⅌ Ct six and a half ⅌ Ct. is the utmost...
102To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I find by a Letter from Colo. Wadsworth that News has arrived there of my hav[in]g skipt Payment. The Fact is that I have been compelled to do it, with Respect to a certain Description of Notes, which were issued by my agent during my absence from this City—the Circumstances are too long and too Painful to detail: you shall know them on my Arrival in Phila. for which Place I will certainly set...
103From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 12, 1792 . On March 26, 1792, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “On the 24th of this month I received your letter of the 12th.” Letter not found .]
104From Alexander Hamilton to John Kean, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 12, 1792 . On April 18, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Kean concerning the suspension of the sale of bills desired “by my letter of the 12th ultimo.” Letter not found .]
105From Alexander Hamilton to Timothy Pickering, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received the communication which you made to me with respect to a a part of the contingent expences of the general post office, and on comparing the sum you mention with the charges for similar objects, which have been necessarily sustained in this department, and in the public service in general I cannot perceive any thing in the arrangement you propose, but what appears consistent...
106From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to receive your letter of the 10th. instant, and Mr. de la Forest has applied at the Treasury for the payment of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars at the moment when 1 was about to request you would take order for the receipt of that sum. A warrant on the Treasurer has in course been executed. With very great respect & attachment, I have the honor to be Sir Your...
107To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 13 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 13, 1792 . “Unpleasant as the task is, to be the Bearer of bad tidings, it has fallen to my lot; and it is no less then the entire loss & destruction of one of the Piers at mud Island, by the Breaking up of the Ice on thursday last, when the whole body thereof moved at once, with the flood tide and a heavy easterly wind, which forced it with great Violence for A long...
108Conversation with Jean Baptiste de Ternant, [13–26 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton, avec qui j’en ai causé ensuite, et qui est plus particulièrement ici l’homme essentiel en finances, m’a paru également bien disposé—“Nos ressources pécuniaires sont extrêmement bornées; mais nous pourrons cependant quelque chose si les circonstances l’exigent; et en cas de demande de votre part vous pouvez compter que je ferai tout, pour remplir les vues de votre Gouvernement,”...
109To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 13 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] March 13, 1792 . “… I wish for a supply of Registers having only seven on hand; and I should be very happy if an allowance and compensation for my services could be made to me before the adjournment of Congress.” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. On April 5, 1792, H submitted to Congress his “Report on Compensation of Officers Employed in the...
110From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 13 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
A foreign attachment at the suit of Paulus Kok against Theodosius Gerhardus Bosch was served on the Secretary of the Treasury and on the Register out of one of the Courts of Pennsylvania by William Will, Esquire, Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia, with summons, as garnishees. The Defendant was supposed by the Plaintiff to be a Creditor of the United States, which, in fact, is the...
111From Alexander Hamilton to William Duer, 14 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 11th. got to hand this day. I am affected beyond measure at its contents; especially as it was too late to have any influence upon the event you were apprehensive of—Mr. Woolcott’s instructions having gone off yesterday. I trust however the alternative which they present to the Attorney of the and the discretion he will use in managing the affair will enable you to avoid any...
112To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 14 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the 7th. section in the act for registering vessels &c it is provided that when an owner resides out of the district where the ship may be at the time a register is required that such owner may take and subscribe the oath before the collector of the district in which he resides. A Gentleman from Baltimore came here a few months since and purchased a vessel, loaded her and wished her to sail...
113[Report on the Return of Exports], 15 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In further pursuance of the order of the Senate of the 8th. instant, I have the honor to transmit a return of the exports from the United States for one year ending the 30th. September 1791, exhibiting the islands and countries to which those exports have been shipt. This document is completed so far as the returns have been received at the Treasury, but an addition is yet to be made of the...
114To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 16 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 16, 1792 . “Having Particularly Inspected the Condition of the Piers at mud Island, I have the honor to report, that the Pier destroyed by the Breaking up of the Ice, was not Removed intirely from its bed as at first Represented, But that all the upper part thereof Below low water mark was Torn away and now lays sunk. Just against the back part or upper side of what...
115Report on Claims of the Lutheran and Calvinist Churches in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the Public Grammar School … (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the petition of the Minister and Trustees of the Lutheran Church in Pikeland Township Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania: The petition of the Wardens of the Calvinist church in Vincent Township, in the County and State aforesaid; —and the petition of the Corporation of Trustees of the public Grammar School of Wilmington in Delaware...
116Report Relative to the Additional Supplies for the Ensuing Year, 16 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th instant directing the said Secretary to report to the House his opinion of the best mode of raising the Additional Supplies requisite for the ensuing year, respectfully submits the following report. The sum which is estimated to be necessary for carrying into effect the purposes of the Act for...
117From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 16 March 1792 (Hamilton 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. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See “Report Relative to the Additional Supplies for...
118To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 16 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
On the 9th. of June last I had the honor to write you on the Subject of my emoluments as Collector of the Customs for the district of Portsmouth and transmitted you a Statement of them for one Year in Conformity with your Circular direction of the 14th. of April. The Many important public matters which continually arrests your attention I imagine would hardly admit of your reporting on every...
119From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States, 17 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
When lately I furnished you with drafts upon the Bank of Massachusettes for 50.000 Dollars I mentioned to the Committee of your Board, on whose application, the operation was made, That it might happen, that I should want an equal sum there, at the end of the present Quarter, for payment of the Quarters Interest; in which case I should rely upon the aid of the Bank. It does happen that the...
120To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 18 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Baltimore, March 18, 1792 . On June 5, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Williams : “I have before me your letters of the 18th of March, 18th of April, 8th & 27th of May.” Letter of March 18 not found .]