From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 April 1794
To George Washington1
Philadelphia April 1 1794.
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President & transmits the copy of a paper, which he proposes to communicate to the Committee on the state of the Treasury Department2 and which he hopes will be found by the President conformable with what passed in the interview of yesterday.3
LC, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. For background to this letter, see the introductory note to H to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, December 16, 1793. See also H to the Select Committee Appointed to Examine the Treasury Department, March 24, 1794; H to Washington, March 24, 1794; Abraham Baldwin to H, March 29, 1794.
2. “Report on Principles and Course of Proceeding with Regard to the Disposition of the Moneys Borrowed Abroad by Virtue of the Acts of the Fourth and Twelfth of August, 1790, as to the Point of Authority,” April 1, 1794.
3. Washington sent H’s report to Edmund Randolph on April 1, 1794, for Randolph’s opinion (Randolph to Washington, April 1, 1794 [ALS, RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives]).