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To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Wilkes, [25 January 1796]

From Charles Wilkes1

[New York] Monday Noon [January 25, 1796]

Sir

It has been the constant practice of the Bank, to demand payment on the 3d of July, for all notes which become payable on the 4th—that day being, by the regulations of the Bank, a holiday.2

I am with great respect   Your obet Servt

Chas Wilkes

Alexr Hamilton Esqe.

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Wilkes was cashier of the Bank of New York.

2. H needed this information for the case of Lewis v Burr. See Jonathan Burrall to H, January 25, 1796.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Wilkes, [25 January 1796]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    25 January 1796

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Wilkes, [25 January 1796],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-20-02-0025. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 20, January 1796 – March 1797, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974, p. 51.]

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