HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of the Treasury . Letter signed ("Alexander Hamilton," with flourish), as Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, to Sharp Delany, Collector for the Port of Philadelphia, Treasury Department, 22 January 1795. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, text in an elegant secretarial hand, two tears to address leaf. CONTROLLING COSTS AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT Hamilton gives instructions for the commissioning of a new revenue cutter, to be built on a strict budget: "It being deemed necessary to proceed in the building of the Cutter for the Delaware station I have now to request that you will immediately proceed in the business. It may be well that you should be informed that the Massachusetts Cutter has been contracted for at Newbury Port for about 22 1/2 Dollars per Ton fitted completely as a Vessel with sails, rigging, anchors, &c. including two Boats....The Cutter for New York has been agreed for upon the terms already communicated, and that for Hampton is expected to be completed for 1,000 Dollars. Her keel is 40 feet straight...and she is of 48 Tons. I hoped that building in Philadelphia would prove as cheap as the medium of those three places and therefor expected that 1,000 Dollars would have been adequate...I authorize you however to exceed that price if necessary by 10 per Cent but not more...." *This lot may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice in the front of the catalogue.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Secretary of the Treasury . Letter signed ("Alexander Hamilton," with flourish), as Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, to Sharp Delany, Collector for the Port of Philadelphia, Treasury Department, 22 January 1795. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, text in an elegant secretarial hand, two tears to address leaf. CONTROLLING COSTS AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT Hamilton gives instructions for the commissioning of a new revenue cutter, to be built on a strict budget: "It being deemed necessary to proceed in the building of the Cutter for the Delaware station I have now to request that you will immediately proceed in the business. It may be well that you should be informed that the Massachusetts Cutter has been contracted for at Newbury Port for about 22 1/2 Dollars per Ton fitted completely as a Vessel with sails, rigging, anchors, &c. including two Boats....The Cutter for New York has been agreed for upon the terms already communicated, and that for Hampton is expected to be completed for 1,000 Dollars. Her keel is 40 feet straight...and she is of 48 Tons. I hoped that building in Philadelphia would prove as cheap as the medium of those three places and therefor expected that 1,000 Dollars would have been adequate...I authorize you however to exceed that price if necessary by 10 per Cent but not more...." *This lot may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice in the front of the catalogue.
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