To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 February 1792
From Alexander Hamilton
Philadelphia, 13 Feb. 1792. Communicates “some letters which have recently come to hand respecting the execution of the Excise Law in Kentuckey.”1
LB, DLC:GW.
1. 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 American right to the navigation of the Mississippi had been secured. The House received the petition on 16 Nov. 1791 and referred it to the secretary of the treasury for his information (see , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 192). On 6 Mar. 1792 Alexander Hamilton transmitted to Congress a “Report on the Difficulties in the Execution of the Act Laying Duties on Distilled Spirits” ( 11:77–106). See also Hamilton to GW, 18 Feb. 1792.