Title: Enclosure A: [Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List of the United States for the Year 1794], 20 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Nourse, Joseph
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

Estimate of the Expenditure for the Civil List of the United States, Together with the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of the Several Departments and Offices, for the Year 1794.

For compensation to the President of the United States

25,000.

That of the Vice President

 5,000.

30,000.

Compensation to the Chief Justice

4,000.

do. of five associate Judges, at 3,500 dollars ⅌ annum, each

17,500.

do. of the Judges of the following Districts, vizt.

Maine,

1,000.

New Hampshire

1,000.

Vermont

800.

Massachusetts

1,200.

Rhode Island

800.

Connecticut

1,000.

New York

1,500.

New Jersey

1,000.

Pennsylvania

1,600.

Delaware

800.

Maryland

1,500.

Virginia

1,800.

Kentucky

1,000.

North Carolina

1,500.

South Carolina

1,800.

Georgia

1,500.

Attorney General

1,900.

43,200.

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and their Officers.

Compensation to the Members of Congress, estimating the attendance of the whole number for Six months—

Speaker of the House of Representatives, at twelve dollars per day

2,190.

One hundred and thirty four Members, at Six dollars per day

146,730.

Travelling expenses to and from the Seat of Government

25,000.

Secretary of the Senate, for one year’s Salary
1,500.

Additional Allowance estimated for Six months at two Dollars per day
 365.
1,865.

Principal Clerk to the Secretary of the Senate, for 365 days, at 3 dollars per day

1,095.

Two engrossing Clerks to the Secretary of the Senate, at two Dollars per day each, for 365 days

1 460.

Chaplain to the Senate, estimated for Six months, at 500. dollars per annum

250.

Door-keeper to the Senate, one year’s Salary

500.

Assistant Door-keeper do, do.

450.

Clerk to the House of Representatives, one year’s Salary
1,500.

Additional Allowance, estimated for Six Months, at two dollars per day
 365.
1,865.

Principal Clerk in the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, for 365 days, at three dollars, per day

1,095.

Two engrossing Clerks at two dollars per day each, for 365 days

1,460.

Chaplain to the House of Representatives, estimated for Six Months, at 500 dollars per annum

250.

Serjeant at Arms for same time, at four dollars per day

730.

Door-keeper to the House of Representatives, one year’s Salary

500.

Assistant Door-keeper do. do.

 450.

185,890.

Treasury Department.

Secretary of the Treasury
3,500.

Two principal Clerks, at 800 dollars each
1,600.

Five Clerks, at 500 dollars each
2,500.

Messenger and Office Keeper
 250.
7,850.

Comptroller of the Treasury
2,650.

Principal Clerk
800.

Thirteen Clerks, at 500 dollars each
6,500.

Messenger and Office Keeper
 250.
10,200.

Treasurer
2,400.

Principal Clerk
600.

Two Clerks, at 500 dollars each
1,000.

Messenger and Office Keeper
 100.
4,100.

Auditor of the Treasury
2,400.

Principal Clerk
800.

Fourteen Clerks, at 500 dollars each
7,000.

Salary of the Messenger
 250.
10,450.

Commissioner of the Revenue
2,400.

Principal and Six other Clerks, on the business of the Revenue, Light-houses, general returns and Statements, &ca.
3,500.

Messenger and Office-Keeper
 250.
6,150.

Register of the Treasury
2,000.

Three Clerks on the Impost, Tonnage and Excise accounts
1,500.

Two ditto, on the Books and Records relative to the receipt and expenditures of public monies
1,000.

Two ditto, on the duties assigned to the Register, by the Acts concerning the registering, and recording, enrolling and licensing Ships or Vessels
1,000.
5,500.

Three Clerks for drawing out, checking and issuing, and taking receipts for certificates of the domestic and assumed Debts
1,500.

Three ditto, on the books of the general and particular Loan Offices, comprehending the Interest, Accounts and unclaimed dividends at the several Loan-Offices
1,500.

Six ditto on the Books and Records which relate to the public Creditors, on the several descriptions of Stock and transfers
3,000.

Two ditto on the Books and Records of Registered debt, including the payment of its interest
1,000.

One ditto, to complete the arrangement of the public Securities in books prepared for their reception in numerical order
500.

Two ditto on the Books of the late Government
1,000.

One transcribing Clerk
500.

Two Office-keepers, incident to the several Offices of Record, at 250 dollars per annum, each
 500.

15,000.

53,750.

Department of State.

The Secretary of State
3,500.

Chief Clerk
800.

Four Clerks at 500 dollars each
2,000.

Clerk for Foreign Languages
250.

Office-Keeper and Messenger
 250.

6,800.

Mint of the United States.

Director of the Mint
2,000.

Assayer
1,500.

Chief Coiner
1,500.

Engraver
1,200.

Treasurer
1,200.

* Three Clerks at 500 dollars each
1,500.

8,900.

* The Director observes that three Clerks are estimated to provide against a Contingency; but of the three estimated for last year, only one had been employed, and that at 400 dollars per annum, excepting three Months last Winter, for which one other was paid at the rate of 500 dollars per Annum. The Director estimates ten or twelve Workmen at about 65 dollars per Week
3,385.

12,285.

19,085.

Department of War.

The Secretary of the Department
3,000.

Principal Clerk
800.

Six Clerks, at 500 dollars each
3,000.

Messenger and Office Keeper
 250.

7,050.

Accountant to the War Department
1,200.

Seven Clerks, at 500 dollars each
3,500.

4,700.

11,750.

Loan Officers.

For New Hampshire
650.

Massachusetts
1,500.

Rhode Island
600.

Connecticut
1,000.

New York
1,500.

New Jersey
700.

Pennsylvania
1,500.

Delaware
600.

Maryland
1,000.

Virginia
1,500.

North Carolina
1,000.

South Carolina
1,000.

Georgia
 700.

13,250.

Government of the Western Territory.

District North-West of the River Ohio.

Governor, for his Salary as such, and for discharging the duties of Superintendant of Indian Affairs Northern Department
2,000.

The Secretary of the said district
750.

Three Judges at 800 Dollars each
2400.

Stationary. Office Rent &ca.
350.

District South-West of the River Ohio.

Governor, for his Salary as such, and for discharging the duties of Superintendant of Indian Affairs, Southern Department
2,000.

Secretary of said District
750.

Three Judges at 800 Dollars each
2,400.

Stationary, Office Rent, &ca.
 350.

11,000.

Pensions Granted by the Late Government.

Isaac Van Voert John Paulding, David Williams,
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Each a pension of 200 Dollars per annum, pursuant to an Act of Congress of 23d November, 1780
600.

Dominique L’Eglise, per act of Congress of 8th. August, 17[8]2
120.

Joseph Traverse, per ditto
120.

Youngest Children of the late Major-General Warren, per Act of the 1st. July, 1780
450.

Samuel McKenzie, Joseph Brussells, John Jordan,
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per Act of 10th September, 1783, entitled to a pension of 40 dollars each per annum

120.

Eliz: Bergen, per Act of 21st. August 1781
53.33

Joseph De Beauleau, per Act of 5th. August 1782
100.

Richard Gridley, per Acts of 17th. November, 1775, and 26th. February 1781
444.40

Lieutt-Col. Touzard, per Act of 27th. October, 1788
 360.

2,367.73

Grant to Baron Steuben.

His annual Allowance per Act of Congress
2,500.

Annual Allowance to the Widow and Orp[h]an Children of Col: John Harding, per Act of 27th. February 1793
450.

Also to the Orphan Children of Major Alexander Truman, per same Act
300.

Annual Allowance for the Education of Hugh Mercer, Son of the late Major-General Mercer, per Act dated 2d. March, 1793
 400.

3,650.

For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses Relative to the Civil List Establishment.

Under this head are comprehended fire-wood, Stationary, together with printing Work, and all the contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, rent and Office expenses of the three several Departments, viz. Treasury, State and War, and also for the Mint of the United States.

Secretary of the Senate, his Estimate
3,000.

Clerk of the House of Representatives, his do.
7,000.

10,000.

Treasury Department.

Secretary of the Treasury, per estimate
500.

Comptroller of the Treasury, per do.
800.

Treasurer, per do.
400.

Commissioner of the Revenue, per do.
300.

Auditor of the Treasury, per do.
500.

Register of the Treasury (including Books for the public Stocks) per do.
2,000.

Rent of the Treasury
650.

Ditto of a House taken for a part of the Office of the Register
240.

Rent of a House for the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, and for part of the Office of the Comptroller, and part of the Office of the Auditor
266.66

Ditto of a House for the Office of the Auditor, and a small store for public papers
440.

Wood for the Department (Treasurers excepted) Candles, &ca.
1,200.

7,296.66

Department of State.

Including the expense which will attend the publication of the Laws of the first Session of the third Congress, and for printing an edition of the same to be distributed according to Law.
2,061.67

Mint of the United States.

The Director estimates for the several expenses of the Mint, including the pay of a refiner, when employed, for Gold, Silver and Copper, and for the Completion of the milling furnaces
2,700.

Department of War.

Secretary at War, per Statement
800.

Accountant to the War Department
400.

1,200.

23,258.33

Dollars  397,201. 6

Joseph Nourse, Register.
Treasury Department,Register’s Office, 20th. December, 1793.


Title: Enclosure C: [Estimate of Expenses of War Department, 1794], 14 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Nourse, Joseph
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

  Estimate of the Expenses of the War Department, for the Year One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety Four.

  The Legion of the United States

  Pay.

  General Staff—to wit.

  Dollars per Month

  1
  Major General at
  166

  1,992.

  2
  Brigadier-Generals
  104

  2,496.

  1
  Major Commandant of Artillery
  55

  660.

  1
  Major of Dragoons
  55

  660.

  1
  Quarter-Master
  100

  1,200.

  1
  Pay-Master at Head-quarters
  60

  720.

  1
  Adjutant to do the duty as Inspector
  75

  900.

  1
  Chaplain
  50

  600.

  1
  Surgeon of the Staff
  70

  840.

  1
  Deputy Quarter-Master
  50

  600.

  2
  Aids-de-Camp to the Major General, in addition to their pay in the Line
  24

  576.

  2
  Aids-de-Camp, one for each of the Brigadiers, in addition to their pay in the Line
  24

  576.

  6
  Surgeon’s Mates for the Hospitals for the Western and Southern Frontiers
  30

  2,160.

  1
  Principal Artificer
  40

  480.

  1
  Second Artificer
  26

   312.

  14,772.

  First Sub-Legion.

  Field. Dollars per Month.

  1
  Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant at
  75

  900.

  3
  Majors
  50

  1,800.

  2,700.

  Staff.

  1
  Sub-legionary Pay-Master
  10
  120.

  1
  Sub legionary Quarter-Master
  8
  96.

  3
  Battalion Quarter-Masters
  8
  288.

  3
  Adjutants
  10
  360.

  1
  Sub-legionary Surgeon
  45
  540.

  3
  Battalion Surgeon’s Mates
  30
  1,080.

  3
  Sergeant-Majors
  7
  252.

  3
  Quarter-Master-Sergeants
  7
  252.

  2,988.

  5,688.

  One Company of Artillery.

  1
  Captain
  40
  480.

  2
  Lieutenants
  26
  624.

  4
  Sergeants
  6
  288.

  4
  Corporals
  5
  240.

  10
  Artificers
  8
  960.

  40
  Privates
  3
  1,440.

  2
  Musicians
  4
    96.

  4,128.

  One Troop of Horse.

  1
  Captain
  40
  480.

  1
  Lieutenant
  26
  312.

  1
  Cornet
  20
  240.

  6
  Sergeants
  6
  432.

  6
  Corporals
  5
  360.

  1
  Farrier
  8
  96.

  1
  Sadler
  8
  96.

  1
  Trumpeter
  4
  48.

  65
  Dragoons
  3
  2,340.

  4,404.

  Eight Companies of Infantry.

  8
  Captains
  40
  3,840.

  8
  Lieutenants
  26
  2,496.

  8
  Ensigns
  20
  1,920.

  48
  Sergeants
  6
  3,456.

  48
  Corporals
  5
  2,880.

  1
  Senior Musician
  6
  72.

  15
  Musicians
  4
  720.

  648
  Privates
  3
  23,328.

  38,712.

  Four Companies of Riflemen.

  4
  Captains
  40
  1,920.

  4
  Lieutenants
  26
  1,248.

  4
  Ensigns
  20
  960.

  24
  Sergeants
  6
  1,728.

  24
  Corporals
  5
  1,440.

  4
  Buglers
  4
  192.

  328
  Privates
  3
  11,808.

  19,296.

  72,228.

  Amount of the Pay of the Legion of the United States

  General Staff
  14,772.

  The First Sub-Legion
  72,228.

  Second Sub-Legion
  72,228.

  Third Sub-Legion
  72,228.

  Fourth Sub-Legion
  72,228.

  303,684.

  Subsistence.

  Rations.

  1
  Major-General
  15
  Rations per day
  5,475.

  2
  Brigadier-Generals
  12
  8,760.

  4
  Lieutenant Colonels commandants
  6
  8,760.

  14
  Majors
  4
  20,440.

  1
  Adjutant
  6
  2,190.

  1
  Pay-Master at Head-quarters
  4
  1,460.

  1
  Quarter-Master
  6
  2,190.

  1
  Deputy Quarter-Master
  3
  1,095.

  1
  Surgeon to the Staff
  6
  2,190.

  4
  Surgeons
  3
  4,380.

  12
  Surgeons Mates
  2
  8,760.

  6
  Surgeons Mates for Garrison
  2
  4,380.

  1
  Principal Artificer
  3
  1,095.

  1
  Second Artificer
  2
  730.

  56
  Captains
  3
  61,320.

  60
  Lieutenants
  2
  43,800.

  48
  Ensigns
  2
  35,040.

  4
  Cornets
  2
  2,920.

  Money in lieu of rations, as by law, at the Option of the Officers, at the Contract price, at the Post respectively, where the rations shall become due.

  240
  Privates and non-commissioned of the Artillery,

  320
  Non-commissioned and Privates of the Cavalry,

  4560
  Non-commissioned and Privates of the Infantry,

  5120
  Men
  at 1 Ration
  1,868,800

  Rations
  2,083,785

  2,083,785 Rations, at 15 Cents per ration, is
  Dollars
  312,567.75

  Forage.

  Staff. Dollars per Month

  Dollars

  1
  Major-General
  20

  240

  2
  Brigadier-Generals
  16

  384

  4
  Lieutenant-Colonels Commandant
  12

  576

  13
  Majors
  10

  1,560

  1
  Pay-Master at Head-Quarters
  10

  120

  1
  Adjutant-General
  12

  144

  1
  Quarter-Master-General
  12

  144

  1
  Deputy-Quarter-Master General
  10

  120

  4
  Aids-de-Camp
  10

  480

  4
  Brigade-Majors
  6

  288

  4
  Adjutants
  6

  288

  1
  Surgeon to the Staff
  12

  144

  4
  Surgeons
  10

  480

  12
  Surgeon’s Mates
  6

  864

  6
  Surgeon’s Mates for Garrisons
  6

  432

  4
  Pay-Masters
  6

  288

  12
  Quarter-Masters
  6

   864

  7,416.

  Cavalry.

  1
  Major
  10
  120.

  4
  Captains
  10
  480.

  4
  Lieutenants
  6
  288.

  4
  Cornets
  6
  288.

  320
  Privates
  6
  23,040.

  24,216.

Cloathing.

 240 Non-Commissioned and Privates Artillery

 320 Non-Commissioned and Privates Cavalry

4,560 Non-Commissioned and Privates Infantry

5,120

  480 Contingencies

Dollars.

5,600 Suits at 20 dollars per Suit
112,000.

Equipments for the Cavalry.

Dolls: Cts
Doll: Cts

 13 Officers Equipments
at 18.25
237.25

320 Saddles
6.60
2,112.

320 Briddles
1.66
531.20

320 Cartouch Boxes
.80
256.

160 Sword Belts
.56
89.60

  6 Bugle Horns
4.
24.

320 Pair of Holsters
2.50
800.

320 Bags
.48
153.60

160 Swords
1.44
230.40

160 Pair of Pistols
5.
800.

320 Horseman’s Caps
2.50
800.

320 Pair of Boots and Spurs
4.
1,280.

7,314. 5

Horses for the Cavalry.

160 Horses to replace those which may die, or become unfit for Service, at 100 dollars
Dollars
16,000.

Bounty.

To complete the Number in lieu of the discharged Soldiers, those rendered unfit for duty, and deserters, in 1793 and 1794
Doll:
5,000.

Hospital Department.

For Medicines, Instruments and Stores for the Hospital for the Garrisons and Posts on the Western and Southern Frontiers, also the Subsistence of a purveyor, Assistants and Nurses in the Hospital, and examination of Invalid pensioners
Dollars
20,000.

Ordnance Department.

For the Salaries of Store-keepers at the different Arsenals.

Springfield, Massachusetts

480.

Deputy Store-keeper

 240.

720.

West-Point, New-York
480

Deputy Store-keeper
 240

720.

Albany, New-York
400.

Fort Rensselaer and its dependencies, do.
 172.

572.

Trenton, New Jersey (to be established)

400.

Commissary of Military Stores at

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

500.

Carlisle,      do.

60.

Fort Pitt      do.

360.

New-London, Virginia
430.

Manchester,    do.
  50.
480.

Charleston, South-Carolina

 100.

3,912.

Rents

Philadelphia
666.66

New London
350.

Manchester
 66.66

1,083.32

Labourers at the different Arsenals
400.

Coopers, and Armourers, and Carpenters, occasionally employed
600.

Two Conductors of Military Stores
  720.

1,720.

2,803.32

6,715.32

An Appropriation will be Requisite for the Following Enumerated Buildings, Repairs and Articles, Directed to be Made and Purchased by the President of the United States.

The Expenses of new Carriages for 230 pieces of Brass Field Artillery, at the different Arsenals of the United States, averaged at 140 dollars each
32,200.

The expenses of New Carriages for 134 Iron Cannon with Garrison Carriages, averaged at 50 dollars each
6,700.

The expense of 20 Mortar Beds, at 40 dollars each
800.

    Repairs of 14,000 Arms, at 2 dollars each
    28,000.
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    Cleaning of 12,000   do.    25 Cents
    3,000.

31,000.

In the different Arsenals

Repairs of Fortifications at West-Point
10,000.

80,700.

The expense of casting 50 Brass Field Pieces out of the useless Mortars
2,500.

One hundred Tons of Lead, at 8⅔ dollars per hundred
17,333.34

Seventy-five Tons Gun-powder, at 20 dollars per hundred
30,000.

One Thousand rifled Muskets, at 12 dollars each
12,000.

61,833.34

Equipments for Cavalry.

Five hundred equipments, consisting of Saddles with girths, surcingles, pads and Stirrups, holsters, bridles, halters, mail pillions and Straps, valices, Horseman’s Cartouch Boxes, nose-bags, and horseman’s Swords with belts and Scabbards, at 16½ dollars, each

 8,250.

Ten thousand knapsacks, at 50 Cents each
5,000.

Ten thousand Cartridge Boxes, at 1 dollar each
10,000.

Two thousand tents, at 10 dollars each
20,000.

One hundred Horseman’s tents, at 20 dollars each
2,000.

Twenty Officers Marquees, at 150 dollars each
3,000.

40,000.

For a Magazine and buildings proper to constitute a Magazine and Arsenal above Albany, in the State of New York
5,000.

For the purchase of  Acres of ground for ditto
1,000.

6,000.

For the same objects a suitable position above the falls of Delaware

  6,000.

Dollars
 12,000.

Defensive protection of the Frontiers
Dollars
130,000.

For the year 1792 there has been paid, for the defensive protection of the Frontiers, the following Sums; all accounts for the Year 1793 have not yet been presented or adjusted.

Pennsylvania
14,136.46

Virginia
32,191.69

Territory N.W. of the Ohio
4,296.26

Ditto,   S.W. of the Ohio
52,338.60

Georgia
7,164.78

For 1792, Dollars
110,127.79

For Scouts

 15,000.

Dollars
125,127.79

The great pay allowed the mounted Dragoons, enhanced exceedingly the amount of expences for the defensive protection of the frontiers for the year 1792, and from the present disposition of the Indians, North of the Ohio, and contiguous to the South-West Territory and Georgia, will require an equal or greater Sum for the year 1794 than was paid in the year 1792.

Indian Department.

For defraying the Expenses of the Indian Department
Dollars.
50,000.

Quarter-Master’s Department.

Waggons and Horses, and forage tents, boats &ca. also the transportation of the recruits, ordnance and military Stores, and all the Articles of the Quarter-Master’s Department, the purchase of Axes, Camp-kettles, pack Saddles, Iron, fuel, boards, nails, paint, company books, Stationary, &ca. Also the pay and subsistence of all Clerks, and of the Artificers employed in said Department
Dollars
150,000.

The Advances made to the Quarter-Master’s department, during the present year, amount to Dollars
176,441. 9

Appropriation this Year 100,000.

Forage 34,856.

134,856.

Deficiency Dollars
41,585. 9

Contingencies of War Department.

For Maps, hiring Expresses, allowances to Officers for extra Expenses, printing, loss of Stores of all kind, advertising and apprehending deserters
Dollars
30,000.

Invalid Pensioners.

For the annual allowance to the Invalids of the United States, from 5th. day of March, one thousand Seven hundred and ninety four, to the fourth day of March, one thousand Seven hundred and ninety-five, inclusively.
Doll: Cts.
Doll: Cts.

New Hampshire
3,770.68

Massachusetts
11,713.75

Rhode-Island
3,119.

Connecticut
7,127.86

Vermont
388.

New York
16,260

New Jersey
4,039.27

Pennsylvania
16,748.32

Delaware
1,884.

Maryland
4,240.

Virginia
8,028.26

North Carolina
1,070.

South Carolina
1,000.

Georgia
  850.41

80,239.55

Recapitulation.

Pay of the Legion of the United States

303,684.

Subsistence

312,567.75

Forage

31,632.

Cloathing

112,000.

Equipments for the Cavalry

7,314. 5

Horses for the Cavalry

16,000.

Bounty

5,000.

Hospital Department

20,000.

Ordnance Department

6,715.32

Repairs and Articles directed to be made and purchased by the President of the United States

202,783.34

Defensive protection of the Frontiers

130,000.

Indian Department

50,000.

Quarter-Master’s Department

150,000.

Contingencies of the War Department

30,000.

Invalid Pensioners

  80,239.55

Dollars
1,457.936. 1

One Million, four hundred fifty-seven thousand, nine hundred thirty-six dollars, One Cent.

War Department, 10th. December 1793.
H. Knox, Secretary at War.

Treasury Department, Register’s Office, 14th. December, 1793.
I Certify the foregoing to be a true Copy of the Original on file, in this Office.
Joseph Nourse, Register.

Total Dollars
1,457,936. 1

Deduct Invalid pensioners
  80,239.

Leaves Dollars
1,377,697. 1


Title: Enclosure E: [Net Amount of Duties on Imports and Tonnage], 2 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Nourse, Joseph
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

Abstract of the Net Amount of Duties on Imports and Tonnage, Which Have Accrued in the United States, During the First and Second Quarters of the Year 1793.

States.
1st Qr. ending 31st March, 1793. Dolls. Cents.
2d Qr. ending 30th June. Dolls. Cents.
Total amount. Dolls. Cents.

New-Hampshire

26,393.26
26,393.26

Massachusetts
7,823.52¾
340,621. 5¾
348,444,58½

Rhode-Island
1,665.52
67,078.93
68,744.45

Connecticut
26,394.47
70,507.84
96,902.31

Vermont

New-York
122,419.49
532,542.45
654,961.94

New-Jersey
924.31
1,879 4
2,803.35

Pennsylvania
157,523.93
586,000
743,523.93

Delaware
129. 7
2,319.71
2,448.78

Maryland
49,512.54¾
161,987.28¾
211,499.83½

Virginia
40,993.15
104,182.62½
145,175.77½

Kentucky

North Carolina
25,371.75¾
16,696.93
42,068.68¾

South-Carolina
91,040.54
106,547.64
197,588.18

Georgia
27,923.23
2,367.67
30,290.90

551,721.54¼
2,019,124.44
2,570,845.98¼

Deduct New Hampshire
1,893.42½

Vermont

82.33
1,975.75½

Net amount
549,828.11¾
2,019,042.11
2,568,870.22¾

Treasury Department, 2d December, 1793.
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury.


Title: Enclosure F: [State of Monies Transferred to the United States], 21 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Nourse, Joseph
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

Dr.
State of Monies Transferred to the United States, Out of the Proceeds of Foreign Loans
Cr

Dollars Cents

Dollars Cents

To this Sum paid to France for the Use of St. Domingo

726,020.
By this Sum drawn by the Treasurer on the Commissioners in

“ payment to France of 3 Millions of Livres pursuant to an Agreement with M. Ternant

544,500.

Dollars

Amsterdam
Florins
5,649,621.2.8
= 2,305,769.13

“ ditto for miscellaneous purposes paid to Mr. Ternant

49,400.
From which deduct the Amount of Bills sold to the Bank of the United States, but afterwards surrendered
}
495,000.
= 200,000.

“ Instalment due to France, September 3d. 1793—1,500,000 Livres
272,250.

“ ditto due   Novem. 5th.    do.    1,000,000 livres

5,154,621.2.8

2,105,769.13

On which there has been paid
Dollars
178,879.35

By this Sum applied in Europe to the payment of Interest, for which provision was made out of Domestic Funds, and thereby virtually drawn to the United States, vizt.

Balance to be paid

 2,620.65

181,500.

“ Payments made to Foreign Officers
Dollars
66,089.77

Interest from the 1st. of February 1791 to the 1st. of December 1793, paid and to be paid— Florins 2,940,790.13

Reserved to be paid
125,227.13

191,316.90
From which deduct this Sum remitted from hence
  536,565. 4

“ This Sum expended in purchases of the public debt—Vizt.

Florins
2,404,225. 9
* at 36⁴⁄₁₁ d.
 971,404.22

1793 February 4th.
Dollars
50,000.

Dollars
3,077,173.35

 “   Do.  19

234,901.89

Treasury Department, December 21st, 1793

 “   Septem. 2d.

 50,000.

Alexander Hamilton

“ Instalment to the Bank of the United States

334,901.89

Secy. of the Treasury.

“ Balance subject to further disposition

200,000.

  577,284.56
* The precise amount of Sum thus paid for Interest cannot be definitively pronounced till the Completion of Settlements of Foreign Accounts now going on at the Treasury.

Dollars
3,077,173.35

A.H.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 23 December 1793
From: Ellery, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Newport, Rhode Island] December 23, 1793. “I have recd. your letter of the 9th of this month. The sum wh. will probably be required to Discharge the allowances to fishg. vessels … will amount to about fifteen hundred Dollars.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [23 December 1793]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Jefferson, Thomas

[Philadelphia, December 23, 1793]

The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Respects to The Secretary of State requests he will favour him with copies of all his communications to Mr. Genet in answer to applications concerning the Debt. They will be necessary to complete a Report on his last. Mr. Hamilton having acted from his knowlege of them in some instances without having them before him.
Decr. 23. 1793


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 23 December 1793
From: Olney, Jeremiah
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Providence, December 23, 1793. “I have received your Letter of the 9th instant. There is only One Vessel, belonging to this District, which has been employed in the Cod-Fishery the last Season, and no regard having been paid to the requisites of the Law, she is not entitled to any Allowance.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 23 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Schuyler, Philip

Treasury Departmt Decemr 23. 1793.
Sir

I herewith transmit you a list of Indian goods, intended to be presented to the Six Nations for the services rendered by them to the United States, in the late attempt to make peace with the hostile Indians.
Considering that it may be precarious, on account of the season being so far advanced, to have the goods shipped from New York, and judging that the articles may be equally as well obtained in Albany, I have concluded to request you to engage a trusty Person, who will execute the business in a satisfactory manner and consistently with the public interest. Mr Daniel Hale has been heretofore employed by the Public. By mentioning his name I do not however mean to confine your choice exclusively to him, should you think of a person better competent to the object.
In case any of the articles or a proper substitute for them cannot be got in Albany, recourse must be had to Mr Nicholas Hoffman, in New York, who will procure them.
The goods are to be delivered to General Chapin, who will give duplicate receipts for them; one of which is to accompany the account to be transmitted to the Treasury for settlement. Receipts must also be taken from the Persons of whom the goods are purchased, as vouchers to the general account. A commission of 2½ per Cent will be allowed to the Agent on the amount of the goods.
The purchases are to be made for Cash and with an eye to œconomy—and for this purpose a Credit for a sum not exceeding 3500 Dollars has been opened at the Office of Discount and Deposit in New York, for which drafts may be made and the money applied to the payments in question.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,   Your Obedt Servant,

Alexander Hamilton
General Schuyler,Albany.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

Treasury Depmt. Decr. 23d. 1793.

The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the consideration of the President a communication from the Commissioner of the revenue, dated the 18th of December respecting Mr. James Collins, Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No: 2 of the District of Pennsylvania. It has at length become certain (what has been for some time feared) that Mr. Collins is incapable of executing the duties of the office and that the good of the public service requires his removal.

Alexander HamiltonSecy. of the Treay.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, 26 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hazlehurst, Isaac

Treasury DepartmentDecember 26. 1793
Sir

On a review of the Papers which you furnished me respecting the Sloop Hannah, I observe no charge for Insurance. Concluding therefore that none was made upon her, I request that you will be good enough to take the further trouble of having it done. The errand she went upon need not be declared. Some inconvenience might still arise from its being known, that this particular vessel was the bearer of the Dispatches, which she carried. With much consideration & esteem I am Sir Your obedient serv

A Hamilton
Isaac Hazelhurst Esqr


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Schuyler, Philip

[Philadelphia, December 26, 1793. On January 5, 1794, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton: “nor are we without apprehension on your Account, from what you say in Your letter of the 26th. ult:” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Schuyler, Philip

Treasury Department Decemr 26. 1793
Sir

It being intended to establish immediately a recruiting rendezvous at Albany, I take the liberty to request you, to engage a Person who will furnish the necessary Supplies; informing me of what has been done.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following Articles Vizt—
  1 lb of Bread or flour

  1 lb of beef or ¾ lb of pork
  ½ jill of Rum, brandy or Whiskey

1 Quart of Salt
{
per 100 rations

2 Quarts of Vinegar

2 lb Soap

1 lb of Candles

It is conformable to usage to contract for the rations at a fixed price, which has been of late about 10 Cents. For Quarter Masters articles and Medical Assistance (if there is no Doctor belonging to the Troops present) which are also to be provided by the Contractors he will be allowed a Commission of 5 per Cent upon his actual expenditures.
The Provisions must be furnished upon returns of the principal Officer, Specifying the Number of Men for whom rations are required, and a receipt upon the returns at each delivery for the number of rations delivered must be obtained from the same Officer. Should a Non commissioned Officer only be at the rendezvous, when any delivery is made, the Commissioned Officer charged with the recruiting service must afterwards examine and certify it. Similar receipts and certificates must be obtained for all other issues, specifying particulars as accurately as the nature of the case admits, and the accounts must be finally settled at the Treasury, which may be done quarterly. It has been mentioned to me that Mr Daniel Hale has on a former occasion performed this Service, with propriety.

General SchuylerAlbany


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Ebenezer Stevens, 26 December 1793
From: Stevens, Ebenezer
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[New York, December 26, 1793. On January 5, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Stevens: “Your letter of the 26 of December is received.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Brent, 27 December 1793
From: Brent, Daniel
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Philadelphia, December 27, 1793. “I think it necessary to inform you that it is my intention to give up my station in the Treasury Department in the early part of next month.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Church, 27 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Church, Angelica

Philadelp 27 Dec1793

I embrace this opportunity, My Dear Friend, by Mr. Marshall, to tell you that my health which had suffered a severe shock by an attack of the malignant disease lately prevalent here is now almost completely restored. The last vestige of it has been a nervous derangement; but this has nearly yielded to Regimen, a certain degree of exercise and a resolution to overcome it.
The political Campaign, which is just opening, and which no doubt in the course of it will present some volcanic exhibitions, will put every good man’s fortitude and patience to a severe trial. I have hitherto found that a certain elasticity of constitution and temper reacts with a degree of vigour at least proportioned to the pressure—I hope it will be so still.
But how oddly are all things arranged in this sublunary scene. I am just where I do not wish to be. I know how I could be much happier; but circumstances enchain me. It is however determined that I will break the spell. Nothing can prevent it at the opening of the Spring, but the existence or the certainty of a war between this Country and some European Power—an event which I most sincerely deprecate but which reciprocal perversenessness, in a degree, endangers.
How long Dr Sister are the best friends to be separated! This is the question which Eliza and myself frequently ask in reference to you and Mr. Church. But the fates leave us still in the dark without diminishing our ardent & affect wishes. Adieu

A H


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 27 December 1793
From: Willink, Wilhem,Willink, Jan,Van Staphorst, Nicholaas,Van Staphorst, Jacob,Hubbard, Nicholas
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Amsterdam 27 December 1793.
Sir!

Our last respects were of 1 Instant, since when we are deprived of your esteemed favors.
The Five per Cent Bonds of the United States having almost entirely reached the Coffers of our Money Lenders, who do not bring them upon the market, we availed ourselves of this Circumstance combined with that of the money that will be let loose by sundry Reimbursements and the payment of large sums of interest at this season, to propose and urge the undertaking of a Loan for the United States at Five per Cent Interest, agreeable to the Instructions in your Letter to us of 12 August last, and have the pleasure to announce to you, that after having had the greatest difficulty, to persuade our undertakers to assume any Engagement whatever in the present situation of affairs in Europe, which have forced the Emperor and Russia to authorize their Agents, to seize the first favorable Moment, to raise monies for them at enormous premiums or douceurs, We have succeeded to open a Loan here for the United States of Three Millions of Florins, to be dated the 1st. January 1794, at Five per Cent Interest per Annum, reimbursable in Five payments of 600 Bonds annually, commencing the 1 January 1805, and ending the 1 January 1809, And to have f 1,235,000 already undertaken of said Loan, with the hope of carrying the subscription to f 1,500,000.
In vain did We strive to stipulate, a Right for the United States, to reimburse the Principal or a Part of it, at their pleasure; The Condition was positively and absolutely objected to.
The Undertakers are obliged to receive their Bonds in the course of the Five following months, One Fifth each month, and would not assume the Engagement, without expressly reserving unto themselves, the faculty at any time until after the 1 Day of May 1794, to call for and have a like number of the remaining Bonds, as they have in the first instance positively engaged to take, An Attraction for them, to subscribe, that We judge proper to accede to; because if the Bonds of the United States shall be demanded, the Undertakers will call for the Shares they have in option, with equal Alacrity, as if they had positively purchased them, and if they should not be of ready sale, We can make no use of the Unsubscribed Half previous to the first day of May next, when those 1500. Bonds or such part of them as shall not then have been delivered, will remain at the free disposal of the United States.
The Undertakers have as usual the Priviledges to fulfill their Engagement so soon as they please, and those who furnish their monies before the 1 January will be entitled to One months Discount.
On forwarding the Monthly Accounts of the united States, We will take care to advise you particularly the number of Bonds, We shall have delivered, over & above those absolutely undertaken for your Government, in making disposals upon us, or calculating the monies in our hands.
By the Mail of this Day via England, We inform Mr. Short of this Loan being launched upon the Market, and transmit him a Model of the Power He is to pass, to authorize us to sign the Bonds, conformable to your instructions to us of the 12th. August.
You will naturally conceive Sir, that in the Circumstances We actually labor under, evinced in the strongest and most indisputable Light, by the slow progress of the Loan for the Bank of the United States, notwithstanding the Charges allowed for it are Five per Cent; and the Impossibility to obtain a larger undertaking than f 1,235,000. of the present Loan for the United States, and which there is no prospect of soon being relieved from, nor even that they will be speedily mitigated, it has not been practicable to effect this Business, at the Charges you limited us to: The least they ought to be is Five per Cent, and We have built most confidently upon the hope, that on receipt of our letter to You of 15th October, You will have extended them to that rate, or that you will not hesitate doing so, upon learning and taking into Consideration what We have had to combat and vanquish to have this Loan undertaken, and the great Douceurs We have been obliged to give to ensure our success. We do assure you Sir, that had We confined our Ideas to your allowance for Charges, We should have been deterred from pushing the Business at the present moment, and thereby probably, have suffered to pass by unimproved, the only favorable Instant, that may occur for a long space of Time to raise a Loan here for the United States: But our Zeal and activity to promote to our utmost Ability, their Interests, and the accomplishment of your Wishes, did not permit our advantage to enter into any the least Competition, against the risque of not being able to fulfill them, had the loan not been urged forward, at this very juncture.
We feel and freely confess, that We have no strict or positive Right, to more than Four per Cent Charges; and should you after all due Consideration of the matter, determine not to allow us more, We must submit, and have recourse for our Comfort to the pleasing reflexion, of our having resolved, rather to transact a Loan for the United States, at One per Cent Charges less than they ought to have been, than to suffer the only probable moment of procuring it for them to pass by unimproved, at a period and under Circumstances, that could but render same highly beneficial and pleasing to them, in every point of view: Such Return for our Devotion We cannot dare not expect to meet, after the flattering experience We have had of their readiness to acknowledge our services and to recompense them, when former Events tempted us likewise, to assume more than We were specifically authorized to do, in order that their Interests might be promoted, all that was in any wise possible.
We are with great Regard and Esteem &c.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 28 December 1793
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, December 28, 1793. Asks that a warrant for three hundred and ninety-two dollars be issued in favor of William Allibone to enable Allibone “to discharge the accounts falling due in the quarter ending the 31st December instant.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 28 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Ellery, William

[Philadelphia, December 28, 1793. On January 14, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton: “I am much obliged by … your letter of the 28th of the last month.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 28 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Knox, Henry

[Philadelphia, December 28, 1793. On December 30, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Knox and referred to “My Letter of the 28 instant.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 30 December 1793
From: Ellery, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Newport, Rhode Island] December 30, 1793. “The Schooner Hannah is condemned. The Evidence was so strong against her, and the Vessel is of so little value that the Owners did not think proper to put in claim.… I shall pursue the Capt. & Mate with writs, continue my endeavours to find out the vessel, which received the Rum out of the Schooner, and who were employed in that business; and do every thing in my power by detection to break up the infamous practice carried on by the Company of Bourne & Wardwell of Bristol. The condemnation of the Brig Enterprize seized at N york for running goods while they were part owners of her would give them a considerable check. There is no doubt but that goods were run out of that Vessel to the value of four hundred dollars and upwards; but the proof of it, as in such cases, will almost always be attended with difficulty. In my letter to you of the 26th. of August last, I gave you a history of this transaction. On the 11th of Nove. I wrote a letter to Col. Lamb urging him to send me a copy of the Libel and claim in order that evidences might be taken which might be legally used on the trial of the Enterprize.… On the 9th of this month I repeated my request that he would send me a copy of the libel, and a copy of the claim, adding that the District Judge had informed me that it was absolutely necessy. that the Parties to the suit should be known, in order that deposits. should be taken so as to be legally used at the trial, informed him that Wm. Barker had been tampered with, had secreted himself or absconded.… I since wrote to him on the 16th of this month … but no answer has been obtained from him.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, 30 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Knox, Henry

Treasury DepartmentDecember 30. 1793
Sir

I am content that the Post of Fort Franklin be supplied with Whiskey for the time mentioned in Major Craigs letter on the account of the Contractors and upon the terms mentioned.
My Letter of the 28 instant marks out generally the plan to be pursued with regard to the supply of the army with Whiskey. You will perceive that the places of Deposit are Forts Washington Steuben & that lately established at the Mouth of Wheeling; where the spirits will be ready to be delivered over to the order of the Quarter Master General to be issued under his direction to the Troops as the course of service may require.
In this operation the Quarter Masters of the several Regiments will be of course auxiliary to him.
If you can indicate the proportions that it may be adviseable to place at the respective deposits it may facilitate a proper arrangement in the first instance.
I have the honor to   be very respectfully Sir   Your very obedient servant

The Secretary at War


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 31 December 1793
From: Lincoln, Benjamin
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Boston, December 31, 1793. “In your circular letter under the date of Decr 20th Instant You request that all my acct to the end of the year should be promptly rendered. Those for the third quarter will be presented herewith, the fourth will follow some time in Jany. The reasons why we are so late with our third quarter arise from the sickness of my Clerks one of which is yet confined and probably will never be able again to attend the Office.… I was in hopes that I should have received your remarks on my last quarterly account while these were in my possession as it is much easier to correct the errors in the second which were committed in the first. Can you not permit us in future to retain the succeeding untill we receive your remarks on our preceeding quarterly account? …”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 31 December 1793
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Willing, Thomas

[Philadelphia, December 31, 1793. “The Secretary [of the Treasury] in a report to the House of Representatives of the 21st. December 1793, submitted a proposition for making provision for the second instalment. None having been made, he by a Letter to the Bank of the 31st. December 1793, informed that the Legislature not having yet had leisure to provide for the second instalment of the two Million loan, he had concluded to suspend calling into the Treasury the last installment of a Loan of 800,000 dollars which had been contracted with the Bank, and that that Sum would remain in deposit as an offset against the first mentioned instalment ’till provision should be made by Law.” Letter not found.]


Title: List of French Distressed Persons, [1793]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To:

[Philadelphia, 1793]

  1
  Madame Le Grand with two Children lives near the little Market at the house of Mr. Peter French Hatter in the greatest Indigence

  2
  Madame Gauvin second street North No. 83 with three Children equally destitute

  3
  Madame Demarie blind with a daughter who is a widow and a little Child No. 19 Cedar Street in dreadful distress

  4
  Madame Noel 7 Children and an orphan of whom she took charge. Mulbery Street No 223—has not yet experienced so great extremity as the former but is at present without money and owes 26 Dollars

  5
  Madame Robard with 4 Children Madame Benoit with two, both in the greatest indigence. Their residence at present unknown.

Subscriptions for the Relief of the foregoing persons—viz

Mary Morris.—10 dollars
Eliza Hamilton—20 dollars
Th Cazenove—Ten dollars
Susan Kean 5 Dols.
Cash—10 dollars
Dl: Huger 5 Dollars 50
Ann H Livingston 3 dollars
D Stewart. Five dollars
paid L Knox Ten Dollars
pd. Wm. Smith—five Dollars
pd T Dalton five Dollars
pd. J Williams five Dollars.
pd. Cash 5 Dollars
pd. H. Breck ten Dollars
pd. R. Izard Five Dollars. 50
pd. C. Lagarinne five Dollars—50
pd YZ—fifteen Dollars
paid—Cash—5 Dollars
Paid—Eliza. Powell 10 Dollars
Paid—TF.—8 dollars 46
paid Eliza. Cabot 5 Dollars—RK
R King 5 Dollars—paid. RK
O. Ellsworth 5 dolls—paid RK
P Butler 5 Dol—paid R⟨K⟩
M. Coxe 3 dollars paid
J Whitesides 5 Drs
John Guest jun 10 doll
Mrs. Nixon—8
Mr. Ross—5
Mrs. Livingston—5


Title: On the Rise of a War Party, [1793]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To:

[Philadelphia, 1793]

Every new political occurrence renders it more and more apparent, that there is a description of men in this country, continually on the Watch to defame and if possible to convulse the Government of the UStates. No important measure of that government from whatever quarter it proceeds, can escape their malevolent vigilance. Tis a consolation, however, that by overacting their part, they betray their real character, in spite of the mask of superior patriotism, under which they endeavor to seduce the public judgment. In the paroxisms of their phrenzy, they tear aside the viel of their own hypochrysy; and unfold themselves to the public eye and indignation and incorrigible adversaries of National Order and Prosperity. It was once the wish and the hope of moderation, that time reflection and experience would mitigate, if not cure their enmity. But this hope can no longer be indulged with safety. Tis a deceitful one, that must be discarded as tending to render virtuous men the dupes of a perpetual and implacable conspiracy against the general weal. It has become necessary to the security of the essential interests of the Union that all true patriots, all sincere lovers of peace all real friends


Title: Articles of Agreement Between Alexander Hamilton and Robert Elliot and Elie Williams, 1 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Elliot, Robert,Williams, Elie
To:

Philadelphia, January 1, 1794. “… This Indenture witnesseth, that … Alexander Hamilton, for and on behalf of the United States of America, and … Robert Elliott and Elie Williams for themselves, their Heirs Executors and Administrators have mutually covenanted and agreed … as follows: First, that the parties of the second part … shall supply, and issue as many Rations to consist of the articles herein after specified as shall be required of them for the service of the United States, for and during the year, one thousand Seven hundred and ninety four, at the respective places and prices herein after declared.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [3 January 1794]
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia, January 3, 1794]
Sir

I have the honor to inform you that there is a tariff or table of duties, free articles &ca. established by the Government of France which must throw great light upon your enquiries of the 1st. instant. This document must doubtless be in the Secretary of States office and could be furnished for the necessary time by Mr. Randolph. Mr de la forest shewed me a copy of it but he has since departed from the U. S.
Tobacco has been excluded from the farmers general’s monopoly, which object was much pressed by the Marquis de la Fayette, and by the most intelligent Merchants & planters of the U. S. It was some time ago placed under an extra duty of 6₶. 15s. ⅌ 100 lb. french weight, which however was preceeded by a greater tonnage here on french ships in the same trades, than on our own, and by 10 ⅌ Ct. more duty on goods in french ships than in our own. This duty of 6₶. 15s. however has been since reduced, considerably and I believe it now stands at 2₶. 10s. ⅌ 100 lb, french, equal to about a Louis d’or ⅌ hhd. This, if it were in Specie, would be a very serious matter, & so it was probably intended but we are considerably favored by the deprecition, this a circumstance hardly contemplated by the french Legislature.
I understand that the state of duties, prohibition, &ca. in the late report of Mr. Jefferson were exhibited in Notes to the different foreign Ministers—tho I do not know how far the statement was confirmed by them, but this I presume could be ascertained in your next conference with Mr. Randolph.
I shall pursue the enquiry directed by you but as I have heretofore obtained much of my information from three public & private french gentlemen now dead or absent, and as I do not know the present consul of France I have not yet been able to satisfy my mind. In the mean time I thought the above information might be useful.
I have the honor to be, sir   Yr. Most obedt. Servant

Tench Coxe
January 3d. 179[4]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [4 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Washington, George

[Philadelphia, January 4, 1794]

The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred, by the President of the United States a Letter from the Minister of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, dated the 21st instant, respectfully makes the following, Report.
The Minister observes, that it results from the report of the Secretary of the Treasy. that upon an accidental error, the interests of the French republic and the character of it’s representative were compromitted by a refusal to accept drafts, delivered to the agents by whom they were supplied, for sums due to the republic; adding to this observation, the further one, that it seems to him that a like measure meritted the most serious attention, and that he knows not by what name to call the negligence which was committed in this respect.
This asperity of remark might, it would seem, have been prevented by a due attention to circumstances and facts. It was stated, in the report to which the minister refers, that the error in question was the mere mistake of the Clerk charged with registering his drafts, as they were presented at the Treasury. It will not be alleged that this was not the proper business of the Clerk, and all that could be expected from the head of the Department, or the officer having in his place the principal direction, is, that there should have been due care in selecting the person to whose immediate agency the duty was entrusted. To this point there was no want of attention. The clerk selected had been long tried in public business and has a well established reputation for fidelity and accuracy. This officer is himself persuaded, that in the instance, which occasioned the demur, no error was committed; and firmly believes, that the convenience of parties had produced an alteration in the bill, after it was noted by him. But this surmise of his has been rejected, and it has been taken for granted & admitted, that there was a mistake on his part; though, as no mark was set upon any bill presented and noted, that admission was founded on considerations, in which candour & delicacy governed. No palliation of the mistake will be attempted to be derived from topics connected with any derangement of the course of business resulting from the late calamitous condition of the City of Philadelphia, nor from the absence of the Secretary of the Treasury from the seat of Government for the recovery of his health, when the incident deemed so exceptionable took place.
The hesitation about the registering of the bills, which appeared to have been overdrawn, was a mere consequence of the first mistake.
The main object of the registry of the bills, was to ascertain for the satisfaction of holders, that there were funds in the treasury, subject to the payment of them, and to secure to those holders a priority, in the event of there being an overdrawing. It was therefore a matter of course that the registry should cease, as soon as itself shewed that the amount of the bills presented equalled the amount of the fund destined for satisfying them. Being the proper and regular guide to the officers of the Treasury, they could not but be expected to follow it.
All that could be asked (if a mistake happened) was, that the consequences of it should be corrected as soon as the mistake was discovered—and this was in fact done. Nor did more than a week elapse before the drafts, which had been suspended on account of the mistake, were recognized & admitted.
But it is suggested by the Minister, that tho’ the error was rectified, the injury which it occasioned, has not been cured. That event, it is asserted, has furnished to the ill disposed, and to the enemies of the French republic, a powerful mean of hurting it’s cause, by alarming the merchants & ruining the credit of it’s agents.
If this assertion were better founded than it is, it would only afford room to regret the consequence of an involuntary error. But whatever injury the credit of France in this Country or of her agents may have sustained, it is to be traced to other sources. More adequate causes can be assigned for it. The assertion which has been made calls for a specification of those causes.
The first of them was, the disappointment of our Citizens in not receiving payment of bills to a large amount furnished to them by the administration of St. Domingo, with assurances of being paid here by the agents of France; at the same time that it was known, that these agents had obtained from the Government of the United States, funds adequate to such payment, which had been applied to other objects. In mentioning this circumstance it is only intended to note the fact, and it’s effect—not to question the propriety of the application which was made of the funds.
Another, and a far more powerful cause, was, the refusal of the present Minister to pay certain bills, which had had the positive sanction of his predecessor; diverting from that destination funds which were understood to have been appropriated to it—and this too in contravention of his own arrangement with the Treasury.
These bills had, like those first mentioned, been drawn by the administration of St. Domingo. But they had in addition been virtually accepted by the late Consul of France, in concert with it’s then minister & in conformity with an understanding between the latter & this Government.
The arrival of the present minister devolved upon him the disposal of the unfurnished residue of the funds which had been promised to his predecessor. An early opportunity was taken to intimate to him the reliance of the Government, that the bills accepted as above, and unpaid would be satisfied by him out of that residue. He gave, without hesitation, a correspondent assurance, & on the 3d. of June last addressed to the Secy. of the Treasury, a letter in the following terms (viz:). “I pray you to put hereafter in the disposition of Citizen Bournonville, Secretary of Legation of the Republic, the funds destined to the acquittal of the drafts of the Colony of St. Domingo, according to the order of payment settled between you & my predecessor.”
A part of these funds was accordingly put into the hands of Mr. Bournonville, in expectation that they would be applied as had been agreed. And upon the enquiries of some of the holders of the bills at the Treasury, in whom apprehensions had been excited, they were assured that they need not entertain any, as it was the known intention of the present Minister to fulfill the engagements of his predecessor; and that funds had been furnished to him for taking up the bills which were falling due.
The Minister afterwards deemed it necessary to change the destination of these funds, as he announced in his letter of the 18. of June to the Secretary of State, and in fact refused payment of the bills.
This measure, of a nature destructive to credit, had the effect, which was to have been anticipated.
The very expedient of registering at the Treasury the drafts of the minister, was rendered necessary by a pre-existing bad state of credit. It engaged the treasury to nothing more than to secure to those, who presented bills, a preferrence against others, to whom subsequent drafts might be given, overrunning the fund for payment; and was devised to facilitate to the Minister an auxiliary mean of credit, of which he stood in need.
These unquestionable truths demonstrate, that there is no room to impute to the consequences of the mistake, which was committed, any deficiency of credit which may have embarrassed the operations of the minister.
But it is a further truth, that if his credit has suffered by the refusal of the treasury to admit his drafts, it is chiefly to be referred to the draft for 20,000 Dollars predicated upon the fund to be at the disposal of France in January; which was finally refused, because not authorised by any previous arrangement between the Government and the Minister.
The temporary demur about other bills speedily abandoned and explained, could not have had an influence, bearing any proportion to that of the ultimate refusal of the above mentioned bill.
As far as this refusal may have had a prejudicial operation, ’tis imputable wholly to the irregularity of having drawn the bill, not only without the consent of the Government, but even contrary to an intimation from it; in a case too in which it was free to refuse.
That it was with the consent of the Government, will not be pretended. The Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Minister, of the 24 of July, accompanying his former report on the subject, excludes all plea of constructive or implied consent.
That is was contrary to an intimation from the Government, results from the following facts.
The Minister by a letter of the 14 of June to the Secretary of State, communicated the intention of giving to those, who should furnish him with supplies, “delegations,” or assignments of the debt to France in payment; desiring, as a pre-requisite to this operation, that the Treasury should be instructed to come to a speedy adjustment with him, of the account of the debt from the United States to France.
To this suggestion the Secretary of State, by a letter of the 19 of June, (after assuring him that instructions would be given for the settlement of the account) replied as follows—“In the mean time, what is further to be done, will doubtless be the subject of further reflection and enquiry with you, & particularly the operation proposed in your letter will be viewed under all its aspects. Among these, we think it will present itself as a measure too questionable both in principle & practicability, too deeply interesting to the credit of the United States, & too unpromising in its result to France to be found eligible to yourself. Finally we rest secure that what is of mutual concern will not be done but with mutual concert.”
Without mutual concert, without even an intervening consultation for that purpose, the Minister thought proper to issue his “delegations” or drafts upon a fund not embraced by any previous arrangement: and he now makes it matter of complaint that these “delegations” were not registered. Was it to have been expected that the treasury should become the passive instrument of a measure so irregular—so unwarranted?
But the Minister in justification of the step, makes two observations.
1. That as the 300,000 livres due the first of January are the interest of the Loan of 6,000,000 made by France to the United States in 1783, the reimbursement of which are not [to] commence ’till 1797, he can see no motive, that could arrest the payment of the interest of that sum at the epoch stipulated, as long as there was due to France an equivalent.
2d. That supposing the payments, which have been made by the Treasury, to exceed the amount of the sums due, he has always been firmly convinced that these advances (to which the urgent wants of France had forced a recourse) would be applied to the extinction of the debt taken in totality; a measure perfectly agreeing with the clause inserted in the different contracts, which expresses that the United States might, if they judged proper, liberate themselves sooner than the epochs fixed by those Contracts.
These observations admit of obvious answers. ’Tis affirmed on our part, and the Minister seems himself to be sensible of its truth, that our payments hitherto exceed the sums demandable by the terms of our Contracts. It may be taken for granted, that this is the case beyond the amount of the interest of the 6,000,000 accruing in January. The United States are at liberty to consider the excess as an anticipation of the capital of the Loans; but they are not bound to do so. They have an option to do that, or to set it off against the interest accruing on the unpaid residue of the debt. The universal course of business will justify them in the latter and their contracts say nothing to the contrary. Not having declared a different option, they were free to pursue that alternative, and consequently, as has been said, to refuse the drafts of the Minister, predicated upon the January interest.
The circumstances which he notices, of the reimbursements of the 6,000,000 loan not commencing ’till 1797, cannot affect this conclusion. These reimbursements so postponed relate to the capital of the debt; & that postponement of course cannot bring into question the propriety of setting off against the interest, annually payable, sums advanced beyond those which were antecedently due.
The conviction of the minister, that the advances, which might have been made, would be deferred towards the final extinction of the debt, could be no rule to the treasury, as long as it had not been authorized by any assurance from the Government; or when it was recollected, that the propriety of a mutual previous concert, about whatever was not a matter of course, was indicated to him, not only by the reason of the thing, but by unequivocal declarations.
In fact, whether the course on which he declares himself to have relied could have been pursued or not depended on circumstances; that is, on the means which should exist of making intermediate payments and postponing the advances to an ulterior arrangement; a point at this moment unascertained, from causes which have heretofore been disclosed.
But the Minister not only hazarded his credit, by drawing without a previous arrangement the bill for 20,000 dollars, payable out of the January interest—he hazarded it likewise by actually overdrawing the funds placed at his disposal in September & November last; so that if no mistake had occurred at the treasury, he might have been exposed by his own conduct to consequences which in that respect happened by accident.
The Secretary now proceeds to the demands contained in the memorial of the Minister —these are.

1. That the state of the account of the United States with France be presented with the least possible delay.
2. That the sums, which may have been advanced to France, beyond those which were demandable on the terms of the Contracts, be applied to the extinction of the debt taken in totallity.
3. That, provisionally, and until the state of the account can be determined, the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to register the “Delegations” or drafts, which the Minister shall have occasion to issue, to the extent of Five millions Tournois.
With regard to the first point—the account is now in a course of adjustment between the Comptroller, on the part of the Treasury, & Mr. Bournonville on the part of the Minister. There are some points which require a mutual adjustment before they can be fixed definitively. A correct view of the account cannot be presented ‘till these points are settled. That done, it shall be immediately laid before the President.
With regard to the second point, the Secretary is of opinion that a determination concerning it cannot now be made. The adoption of the Minister’s proposition would amount to an agreement to pay the accruing instalments at the periods stipulated in the contracts, though the advances which have been made should exceed them. But such an agreement cannot safely be entered into, because it is now problematical whether the Executive will be possessed in time of funds which can be applied to that purpose, without neglecting objects of positive obligation and essential to our credit—as has been already explained & communicated.
With regard to the third point—the answer to the second is an answer to this also. If rightly understood this proposition depends upon the second. It appears necessary first to ascertain what is to be paid & when it is to be paid, before any sanction can safely be given to the proposed “delegations” or drafts. This pre-supposes a settlement of accounts & a further view of our pecuniary prospects.
All which is respectfully submitted.

Alexander HamiltonSecy. of the Treasury
Treasury DepartmentJany 4. 1794


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 January 1794
From: Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.
To: Hamilton, Alexander

TD C O Jany 4. 1794
Sir

The question whether Stock standing on the books of the Treasury & the Loan Offices respectively, is liable to attachment, being yet undecided, I judge it necessary to apprise you, that consequences unfavourable to the public Credit, are to be apprehended.
The most considerable Credits which have been attached are those standing in the names of John Warder & Co & Donald & Burton; and the Creditors who have attached are Robert Morris, Edmund Randolph, Andrew Clow & Co. & John Henry Cazenove & Co. In cases where it was made satisfactorily to appear, to these Gentlemen, that sales had been made bona fide, previous to their attachments they have without difficulty relinquished their claims by attachment, & the transfers have been accordingly made; this voluntary arrangement obviated all material difficulties, untill since the dissolution of the house of Andrew Clow & Co.
Since that period, the gentlemen charged with adjusting the concerns of the House have supposed themselves not to be authorized to relinquish any legal rights which had been acquired; of course no relinquishments from them can now be obtained.

The Stock thus arrested, is of a considerable amount, and I have no doubt that in many instances when transfers are demanded, the property has been fairly alienated. I need not dilate upon the bad consequences which must be produced to the public credit by this state of things especially in foreign Countries & must therefore request, that your influence may be exerted to furnish a suitable remedy.
I have &c

Hon A H


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 5 January 1794
From: Schuyler, Philip
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Albany Jan: 5th 1794
My Dear Sir

We are Alarmed at the state of my Dear Elizas health, nor are we without apprehension on your Account, from what you say in  Your letter of the 26th. ult: I fear much from the incessant application which you are under the necessity to give to the business of your department, increased as It of consequence must be, whilst Congress is in session. I have hitherto been much averse to the determination you mentioned to me, but when I reflect on the danger which your health is exposed to, an[d] the incompetent reward for the most Arduous and important Services, and the chagrin you experience from the weakness or wickedness of those you have to contend with, I am reconciled ⟨to your⟩ Intentions.
I hope the real friends to liberty and good order will not suffer themselves to be entraped by the wily arts of those who wish for confusion that they may fish in troubled waters, and yet I have much apprehension as the honest and well meaning are seldom very seldom sufficiently on their Guards.
As the ballance against this state would not have been so extensive If the Executive and his incompetent Auditor, had severally done what was incumbent on them, as their neglect has already been hinted to the public, I believe that side of the question will not promote much Stir on the Occasion, and I do not conceive that It will be difficult to prevent the other from doing It.
I am advised that a credit in my favor is lodged in the branch bank of NYork for the purpose of purchasing goods for the six nations of Indians. If you have written me on the Subject the Letter has miscarried, or is still on Its way to me.
Adieu My Dear Sir, we all join in those wishes which affection dictate.
Yours ever &c.

Ph: Schuyler
⟨Col⟩o Alexander Hamilton Esqr


Title: Enclosure: [Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury], March 1794
From:
To:

An Account of Funded Stock on the Books of the Treasury, on which Attachments have been Laid.

Time when notice of the Attachment was given at the Office.
By whom attached.
Proprietors of the Stock.
Six &⅌ Cents.
Three &⅌ Cents.
Deferred.

Dollars.
Cents.
Dollars.
Cents.
Dollars.
Cents.

1793.   June 29th:   11 Minutes past    7. A: M:
Robert Morris.
John Warder & Co.
38.289.
72
113.538.
26.
98.261.
70.

Aug: 21st:    3 Minutes past   10. A: M:
Edmund Randolph.
John Warder.
139.
43.
8.185.
49.
2.252.
50.

Apr: 11th:   30 Minutes past   4. P: M:
Robert Morris.

 “   “ 30 Minutes past  12. at noon
Andrew Claw & Dav: Cay.
Donald & Burton.

74.809.
63.

 “   “
— Ditto. —
James Brown.
No Stock.

Comptrollers-Office, March   1794.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Ebenezer Stevens, 5 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Stevens, Ebenezer

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 5th. 1794
Sir

Your letter of the 26 of December is received. The sum you mention per Month appears high for the object. From a calculation made here it is concluded, that Two thousand five hundred Dollars would be a large allowance upon an œconomical arrangement. If the French Minister should express to the Government a desire that this sum per Month should be furnished for such a purpose, I take it for granted it would be complied with.
With esteem I am Sir   Your obedient servt

Ebenezer Stevens Esqr


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 6 January 1794
From: Coxe, Tench
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Treasury Department,Revenue Office January 6th. 1794.
Sir,

The House of Representatives having directed in March last, that a return exhibiting certain details relative to the Revenue arising from Spirits distilled in the United States and from Stills, should be made to them by you on the first Monday of the Current Month, I have the honor to reiterate to you the measures, which have been taken to procure in time the necessary materials.
On the fifteenth day of March last a number of printed Copies of the Resolution of the House, was transmitted to each of the Supervisors, annexed to an equal proportion of Copies of instructions from this Office, calculated to produce immediate attention to the Subject, and a punctual transmission of the requisite documents. It appeared expedient to prepare a considerable number of Copies of the letter containing the resolution and the instructions, in order to facilitate and expedite the Communications from the Supervisors to the subordinate Officers in their respective districts. To ensure the earliest attention to the business, copies of the same were transmitted to certain of those subordinate Officers, who, from the residence of their respective Supervisors, were subjected to delays and hazards in their official Correspondence. Altho it was obvious, on the perusal of the resolution of the House of Representatives, that a punctual transmission of the ordinary returns and Accounts relative to this branch of the Revenue would enable the Treasury to make up the required document; yet it appeared absolutely necessary from obvious considerations that it should be the Subject of particular communication and instruction.
Notwithstanding these measures, and other subsequent requisitions of a like nature, it does not appear to have been within the power of several of the Supervisors to transmit either the ordinary returns and Accounts of the Revenue business for the necessary term (which ended on the 30th of June last) nor the occasional documents conforming with the views of the House, and designated in the accompanying instructions from this Office.
It is necessary, in justice to some of the Supervisors, to observe that the impediments are partly the opposition to the Revenue from a very small proportion of the Citizens of the United States, and partly the intrinsic difficulties attending the Collection of the numerous small returns of the duty accruing on Stills, and on Spirits distilled in places other than Cities, Towns and Villages under the existing provisions of the laws relative thereto.

I have the honor to be with great respect, Sir   Your most obedient Servant

Tench CoxeCommissioner of the Revenue.
The Secretary of the Treasury


Title: Proposed Presidential Message to Congress Concerning Revocation of Edmond Charles Genet’s Diplomatic Status, [6–13 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To:

[Philadelphia, January 6–13, 1794]

Since the application, which was made to the Government of France, for the Recall of its present Minister, that Minister has furnished new and material causes of dissatisfaction with his Conduct. But these occasions of offence have hitherto passed without particular notice; in the hope that it would not be long before the arrival of an order of Recall would terminate the embarrassment—and in the desire, inspired by sentiments of friendship and respect for his Nation, to avoid as long as possible an Act of extremity toward its Agent. But a case has occurred, which is conceived to render further forbearance inconsistent with the dignity and perhaps the safety of the United States. It is proved, as will be seen by papers now transmitted for the information of Congress, that this foreign Agent has proceeded to the extraordinary length of issuing commissions in the name of the French Republic to several of our citizens, for the purpose of raising, within the two Carolinas and Georgia, a large military force with the declared design of employing them, in concert with such Indians as could be engaged in the Enterprize, in an expedition against the colonies, in our neighbourhood, of a Nation with whom the UStates are at peace.

It would seem, likewise, from information contained in other papers, herewith also communicated, that a similar attempt has been going on in another quarter, namely the State of Kentucke; though the fact is not yet ascertained with the requisite authenticity.
Proceedings so unwarrantable, so derogatory to the sovereignty of the UStates, so dangerous in precedent and tendency, appear to render it improper that the person chargeable with them should longer continue to exercise the functions and enjoy the privileges of a diplomatic character.
The supersedure of the exercise of those functions, nevertheless, being a measure of great delicacy and magnitude, I have concluded not to come to an ultimate determination, without first placing the subject under the eye of Congress.
But unless the one or the other House shall in the mean time signify to me an opinion that it is not adviseable so to do, I shall consider it as my duty to adopt that measure after the expiration of  days from this communication.


Title: Report on Domestic and Foreign Tonnage for the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792, [7 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

[Philadelphia, January 7, 1794Communicated on January 8, 1794]
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]

The Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 3d. instant, Respectfully Reports.
The Statements A & B herewith transmitted. The Statement A exhibits a comparative view of the Domestic and Foreign Tonnage, aggregately taken, according to the inward Entries at the several Custom-Houses, with an extension to the year 1789, as far as that was embraced by the Regulations of the United States, and also to coasting and Fishing Vessels, which gives an entire View of the progress of our Navigation from the time the Laws of the present Government began to operate, to the end of the year 1792. It was presumed that the additional matter contained in this Statement, though not within the letter, was within the general intent of the Order of the House.
The Statement B is added to present the Subject more in detail for the years 1791 and 1792, the forms of the Treasury not permitting the carrying this Statement further back, without greater delay than would probably comport with the object of the order.
The other Statement required by the order is in a Course of preparation and is expected to be ready by the Close of this or the commencement of the ensuing Week; but not being within the general results of the Treasury forms, and requiring recourse to a number of distinct documents, it demands more time than was requisite to the other Statements; and it was imagined, that it might be more satisfactory to the House to receive them separately, than to wait for the preparation of all.
All which is humbly submitted.

Alexander HamiltonSecy. of the Treasury.
Treasury DepartmentJanuary 7th 1794.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, [8 January 1794]
From: Lincoln, Benjamin
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Boston, January 8, 1794] “By the 61st: Section of the Act intit⟨led⟩ ‘to provide more effectually for the collection of duties &c’ … it is necessary that the importer should be the exporter to intitle him to the suspension of his bond. A practice is now crept into Existance which creates a vast deal of confusion & delay in doing the business in this office for most of the importers come & say that they are the exporter when in fact we have reason to believe that they are not.… I wish to Ask Whether the importer can with propriety tender himself as the exporter.…”


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Gardner, 9 January 1794
From: Gardner, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 9, 1794. On January 22, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Gardner: “I duly received your letter of the 9th inst.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 10 January 1794
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Philadelphia, January 10th, 1794.

E. Randolph begs the favor of Colo Hamilton, to inform him, whether the bills mentioned in a note the other day, on Amsterdam for the use of our ministers, be attainable? Mr. Marshall is going to England in a day or two, and E.R. wishes to inform them of the supply.


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 11 January 1794
From: Hodgdon, Samuel
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[January 11, 1794. On January 13, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Hodgdon concerning “applications similar to yours of the 11th instant.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [11 January 1794]
From: Mitchell, Medad
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[New York, January 11, 1794]

The Secretary of the Treasury will pardon a Man who no longer considers himself an American, for this address to his feelings, his honor, and his humanity.
There was a time when Patriotism induced me to lay open the intrigues of a foreighn Court, at that time poverty made me desperate, and what I laid, before the Secretary, was the efforts of the greatest industry, that distress coud extort from an ambitious Man. As I have never recieved any emolument for the attempt of throwing any new light on the subjects treat[ed] of, I rely upon his honor not to expose me, on the contrary, I expect his soul spurns at the Idea. And that he will return the sacred truth addressed to Colonel Walker for the Honble Baron de steuben. It is not necessary for me to explain my motiv for leaving my Country the second time, A Country for which my father bled, and which I have served. A great Man, cloathed with power, and who will make no contemptible figure in the Annals of his Country was the cause of it. I am too small a man to resent it, unless a fit of desperation shoud drive me to commit what I shudder to think of. I hope that the Secretary will pardon me for this Language, and do me the Justice to believe, that I entertain a high esteem for his Character. Altho his enemies multiply with a rapid pace, I ever contradict their Calumnys, Beleiving that he has a thirst for “honest fame”, But that he never speculated upon the Cloathing and amunition of our present Army. These things are said of some of our greatest Men, and farther, that by a connection with the Court of St. James, that our western Army has been sacrifised, as well as the interest of the Atlantic States. I cannot believe all this, But I well know a most ruinous policy has been pursued in the Indian war. Mr. Sargant and others advice has been too well attended to, and you may rest asured that Wayne will have a second Melancholly tale to tell the Public. Genl. Knox has been so unkind as to call me a rascal &c—he advanced Sixty Dollars for certain purposes—he like a Great Man quarreled with me afterwards. I deposited the money in the hands of an old Veteran, who has lost his leg for want of a sent. of Common understanding. It remains for him, perhaps when systems change, he may want it, and his children suffer for the indignity offered a poor and Virtuous Man. My friends will find that I am no flatterer, and my enemies shall find, that I am brave.
With esteeem I am the Secretarys Most Obedient and most humble Servant

M Mitchell
New York 11th 1794.The Secretary of the Treasury.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 13 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hodgdon, Samuel

Treasury Department, January 13, 1794. “… applications similar to yours of the 11th instant should pass through the office of the Secretary at war—whence they will come to the Treasury.…”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 13 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Rawle, William

Treasury DepartmentJaunary 13. 1794
Sir

Inclosed you will find the Copy of a letter of the 4. instant from the Comptroller of the Treasury.
The subject of it is particularly interesting to the public Credit. I request that you will adopt such prompt and efficacious measures as you shall deem advisable to bring the point of the liability of public Stock to attachment to a determination in the Court of the U States.
Haveing heretofore consulted Wm Lewis Esqe on the point you will please to confer and Cooperate with him.
All reasonable expences will be defrayed at the Treasury.
I am with Consideration &c,   Sir   Your Obt. Servt.

A Hamilton
Wm Rawle Esqr Attorney of theDistrict of Pennsylvania


Title: Report on the Petition of Daniel Parker, [13 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

[Philadelphia, January 13, 1794 Communicated on January 14, 1794]
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]

The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the Memorial of Daniel Parker, respectfully makes thereupon the following Report.
The Suggestions contained in the Memorial do not appear to be of a nature to call for a readjustment of the Account. The probability of peace within the Year was an event to have been calculated upon on both Sides in forming the original Contract—the loss of Vouchers is the misfortune of the party, of a nature to be equally an Obstacle in a new, as in the former Settlement.
But there are Circumstances which may render it the interest of the United States to compound the debt. It is understood that all the Debtors have been in a State of insolvency. It is now not certainly known what is the condition of the Memorialist. This may demand further enquiry.
In the mean time, if it should appear to Congress adviseable to vest somewhere a power to make a Composition of the debt, it would probably be conducive to the Interest of the United States.
Which is humbly submitted.

Alexander HamiltonSecy of the Treasury
Treasury DepartmentJanuary 13th 1794.


Title: [Speech by William Loughton Smith], [13 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Smith, William Loughton
To:

[Philadelphia, January 13, 1794]


Title: Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Writing to the King of Prussia Concerning the Marquis de Lafayette, [14 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander,Knox, Henry,Randolph, Edmund
To:

[Philadelphia, Jaunary 14, 1794]

At a meeting of the heads of departments at the President’s, on the fourteenth day of January 1794.
It was propounded by the President, whether in consideration of the eminent services of M. de la Fayette, to the U. S. and his present sufferings, it be not adviseable for the President, in a private, and unofficial character, to address to the King of Prussia a letter, requesting his release on parole, founded on motives of personal friendship only. The opinion is, that such a letter is proper to be written.

H Knox
Alexander Hamilton
Edm: Randolph


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Joshua Clayton, 14 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Clayton, Joshua

[Philadelphia, January 14, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Relative to public accounts and the sums paid over to the several states.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 15 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Appleton, Nathaniel

[Treasury Department, January 15, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “relative to the payment of pensions ‘under such regulations as shall have been prescribed by the Secretary of War.’” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Representatives of the Oneida Indians, 15 January 1794
From: Representatives of the Oneida Indians
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Oneida [New York] Jany: 15th 1794
Brother, attend to our words,

We write to you in particular, because some of us know you. We have all heard that you are a friend of every body—Indians as well as White people. We rejoice to hear it. We always want friends among our Brothers the white people. But should the troubles which afflict the Nations over the great Waters reach this Country, we shall again, more particularly stand in need of the friendship of our Bretheren the people of the United States. No body can tell what may happen. We think it would be good, & we wish you Brother to recommend it to Congress, to advise the Senecas & Onondagos at buffaloe Creek, to send some of their Children to be educated at a School which is erected in our Neighbourhood—where we have sent some of our Children to learn to read & write—and that provision be made for their Support. We think that such a measure would serve to strengthen & brighten the Chains of friendship with those Nations. Brother, We Salute you. This is all we have to say.

John Shianondo  X   his mark
Peter Onegomba  X   his mark
John Onodigo  X   his mark
Peter Sademarenghkin  X   his mark
Todwick Thaghasaweta  X   his mark
Cornelius Thahiktoton  X   his mark
Thomas Shononghsis  X   his mark
Daniel Shianondo  X   his mark
Alexr. Hamilton Esqr:


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Abijah Hammond, 16 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Hammond, Abijah

[Philadelphia, January 16, 1794. On January 21, 1794, Hammond wrote to Hamilton: “Your letter of the 16th. I have received.” Letter not found.]


Title: Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 16 January 1794
From:
To:

Philadelphia, January 16, 1794. “At a Meeting of Vice President & President of the Senate, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury” it was resolved “That the two last dividends of Interest on the several species of Stock standing on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund … be applied to the purchase of the public debt within the limits of the last resolution of the board, and … That Samuel Meredith, Treasurer, be the Agent, and Philadelphia the place of purchase.”


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Edmund Randolph, 16 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Randolph, Edmund

[Philadelphia, January 16, 1794. On January 18, 1794, Randolph acknowledged the receipt of Hamilton’s “letter of the 16th. instant.” Letter not found.]


Title: Report on the Accounts of the Commissioners of Loans of Their Payment for Clerk Hire and Stationery, [16 January 1794]
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Speaker of the House of Representatives

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 16th. 1794.[Communicated on January 16, 1794]
Sir,
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives]

I have the honor of transmitting herewith the general Statement required by the House of Representatives, pursuant to their resolution of the 10th. instant, and to be
with perfect respect Sir,   Your most obedient Servant

Alexander HamiltonSecy. of the Treasury.
The HonorableThe Speaker of the House of Representatives.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew Dunscomb, 17 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Dunscomb, Andrew

[Philadelphia, January 17, 1794. On January 26, 1794, Dunscomb wrote to Hamilton: “Your friendly favor of the 17th Inst. I recd. ⅌ last post.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Rawle, 18 January 1794
From: Rawle, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

[Philadelphia, January 18, 1794. On January 20, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Rawle: “In answer to your letter of the 18th. instant.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from William Henderson, 19 January 1794
From: Henderson, William
To: Hamilton, Alexander

New York Jany. 19th. 1794
Dear sir

Mr. Hammond has informed me since his return, that he left Philada. without having an opportunity of speaking to you on the subject of the negociation, on which we conversed. I am sorry it was omitted—Tho’ it need not prevent the business going on. I think there will not be much dificulty in effecting what you wish; if the security be such as you supposed it would be: for my own part I will readily go as far as my other engagements will permit, and I feel confident there others who would do the same if applied to, but I have not taken the liberty to mention it to any one. Any further communication, you may think proper to make on this subject, will meet the utmost attention from
Your Very Hume. servt.

Wm Henderson
The Honble. Alexr. Hamilton


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, 20 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Muhlenberg, Frederick A. C.

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 20th. 1794.
Sir,

I have the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives the Copy of a Letter to me from the Commissioner of the Revenue, on the Subject of a Return required by an Order of the House of March last, respecting the Revenue arising from Spirits distilled within the United States and from Stills. This Letter explains certain obstacles which still postpone a compliance with that Order, notwithstanding strenuous exertions to be prepared to fulfil it.
It is hoped that the House, sensible of the embarrassments which impede the complete Arrangement of this branch of the public Revenue, will make due Allowances for a delay, which is unavoidable, and which will be terminated as speedily as possible.
With perfect respect   I have the honor to be   Sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant

A. HamiltonSecy. of the Treasury
The HonorableThe Speaker of the House of Representatives.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 20 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Rawle, William

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 20th, 1794
Sir

In answer to your letter of the 18th. instant, received this day, I observe, that I wish it to be considered whether a proceeding cannot be instituted in some Court of the United States on behalf of the United States in the nature of a Bill of Interpleader, bringing all the parties interested before the Court to contest their respective rights and consequently the validity of the attachment. It would seem to me that this course can be pursued, and if it can I should prefer it, because it will not leave it in the option of the parties to procrastinate as they please. And if even (by means of a perpetual injunction) it should not have the effect of arresting the progress of a suit pending upon attachment in a State Court, it would at least establish a rule for the Government of the Treasury; and the suits upon attachment could afterwards be carried into the Federal Courts for ultimate determination; proper pleas having been interposed in the State Courts as a basis of an appeal or writ of Error.
I request to know what impediments, if any lie in the way of the proceeding I have intimated.
An application to the Court by motion would not answer the purpose of the Treasury.
With great consideration & esteem   I am Sir   Your Obedt. servant

Alexander Hamilton
William Rawle Esquire


Title: Enclosure: Benjamin Lincoln to Thomas MacDonough, 14 January 1794
From: Lincoln, Benjamin
To: MacDonough, Thomas

Boston Jany 14th. 1794
Sir

I am authorised, in conjunction with you, to appoint persons to establish the value of such Vessels & Cargoes the property of the subjects of Great Britain as have been captured by French privateers armed and equipped in the ports of the United States between 5th of June and the seventh of august last and which have been restored.
At present however my attention is called to three only the Jane—Lovely lass—& Prince Wm Henry. I will attend to this business when ever it shall be convenient for you.

Mr Mc.Donnough


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 21 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Lincoln, Benjamin

[Philadelphia, January 21, 1794. On February 1, 1794, Lincoln wrote to Hamilton: “By this mornings post your letter of the 21st. Ulto was received.” Letter not found.]


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Otho H. Williams, 21 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Williams, Otho H.

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 21st 1794
Sir

I herewith enclose you a letter directed to Thos. Pinckney Esquire London. It covers one to Messers Willink and Van Staphorst, Bankers in Amsterdam. I request that you will forward the letter by the first opportunity to London, if no immediate conveyance offers for Amsterdam; but if there should be a vessel in your port for Amsterdam you will please to open the outside cover addressed to Mr. Pinckney and send the letter to Messrs Willink and Van Staphorst directly to its address in Holland.
I am Sir with great consideration   Your Obedt. Servant

A Hamilton
The Collector of Baltimore


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 21 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Willink, Wilhem,Willink, Jan,Van Staphorst, Nicholaas,Van Staphorst, Jacob,Hubbard, Nicholas

[Philadelphia, January 21, 1794. On March 28, 1794, Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard wrote to Hamilton: “Since our last respects … We have your esteemed favor of 21st. January.” Letter not found.]


Title: To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 21 January 1794
From: Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.
To: Hamilton, Alexander

TDCO. Jany 21st 1794
Sir

Pursuant to your directions I herewith transmit the original statement of Jno. Blanchards Account of New Emissions, which was settled at the Treasury in Sept. 1790.
It is true that he paid the following sums in New Emissions to Heza. Wetmore for which Credits are passed in the accounts of Jno. Pierce Esq. late P Master General viz

1781
July 1st
50.

Sept. 10th
377.30
being in the

whole Four hundred & twenty seven Dollars & thirty ninetieths.
These payments will appear to have constituted a Credit in the settlement made at the Tresy in Sept. 1790.
There is no probability in my opinion that any other payments were made by Blanchard to Mr. Wetmore or Mr. Pierce, than these before mentioned, which have already been passed to his Credit & I think I may venture to assure you that his pertinacity in continually troubling the Treasury on this subject, can have no reasonable object
I have the honor to be with the greatest respect &c

Hon AH.


Title: From Alexander Hamilton to James Blanchard, 22 January 1794
From: Hamilton, Alexander
To: Blanchard, James

Treasury DepartmentJanuary 22nd, 1794
Sir

I have examined into the matter mentioned in your letter of the 19th Instant & have inspected the Books & papers relative to it. The result is as follows viz
The sum charged to the State of New Hampshire, and for which you have credit with the United States, is 5354 Dollars & 60/90 and not as you state 5353 Dollars;
Consequently the balance which remained of the Sum of 5732 dollars, which you acknowledge to have received was not as you state 379 Dollars, but 377 Dollars & 30/90.
In your account of New Emissions settled by Mr. Howell under date the 13th of September 1790, you have credit for the above balance of 377 dollars & 30/90 as paid to Hezekiah Wetmore.
This sum is included in that account in a greater sum of 427 Dollars & 30/90 which upon recurring to an account rendered by Mr. Pearce, is found to be composed of two different payments to Hezekiah Wetmore viz

July 1
1781

 50

Sept 10,
1781

377,30

Dollars
427,30

So that it is manifest you have already had in substance the credit you claim, correcting an error of statement.
I am Sir   your hum. Svt.

Alex. Hamilton
Mr. James Blanchard