To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 26 January 1796
From Timothy Pickering
Department of State January 26. 1796.
Sir
I have the honor to request your order on the Secretary of the Treasury for two thousand five hundred dollars, to enable me to pay accounts and bills presented to me by Thomas Fitzsimons Esqr. Chairman of the Committee of Merchants, for expenditures in procuring copies of papers from the British Admiralty Courts in the west Indies in the cases of the captures of American vessels;1 and to be with the highest respect, Sir, your obedient servant
Timothy Pickering.
LB, DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters.
1. GW’s order has not been found, but a warrant for $2,500 was issued to Pickering on this date for this purpose (Account of the Application of the Grants made by Congress for the Contingent Charges of Government, 1 Jan.–31. Dec. 1796, enclosed with GW to Congress, 15 Feb. 1797, DNA: RG 46, entry 47). On 18 Feb. 1796 Pickering applied to GW for $2,000 to pay bills presented by Thomas Fitzsimons (LB, DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters), and again a warrant was issued the same day.