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washington to john jay, chief-justice, and james wilson, james iredell, and william patterson, associate-justices, of the supreme court of the united states - Alexander Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 5 [1793]

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The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge (Federal Edition) (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). In 12 vols. Vol. 5.

Author: Alexander Hamilton
Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge

Part of: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), 12 vols.

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Foreign Relations ( Continued )
Cabinet Opinion
Cabinet Opinion—hamilton and Knox
Washington to John Jay, Chief-justice, and James Wilson, James Iredell, and William Patterson, Associate-justices, of the Supreme Court of the United States
Questions Proposed to Be Submitted to the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States
Washington to the Heads of Departments and the Attorney-general
No Jacobin 1
I.
Ii
Iii
Iv
V
Instructions to the Collectors of the Customs 2
Cabinet Opinion.—hamilton to Washington 1
Notes By Hamilton, to Frame Letter of Secretary of State to Gouverneur Morris, Minister At Paris (cabinet Paper.)
Cabinet Opinion
Hamilton to Washington
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Report.
Americanus (from the American Daily Advertiser .)
I
II.
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Points to Be Considered In the Instructions to Mr. Jay, Envoy Extraordinary to Great Britain
Hamilton to Jay (cabinet Paper.)
Treaty Project
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Hamilton to Randolph (cabinet Paper.)
Hamilton to Randolph (cabinet Paper.)
Remarks On Lord Grenville’s Project of a Commercial Treaty, Made At the Request of E. Randolph, Esq., Secretary of State
Hamilton to Washington (cabinet Paper.)
Remarks On the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Made Between the United States and Great Britain
Supplementary Remarks
Horatius 1
Camillus
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No . Viii
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washington to john jay, chief-justice, and james wilson, james iredell, and william patterson, associate-justices, of the supreme court of the united states

Philadelphia,

July 23, 1793.

Gentlemen:

The circumstances, which had induced me to ask your counsel on certain legal questions interesting to the public, exist now as they did then; but I by no means press a decision whereon you wish the advice and participation of your absent brethren. Whenever, therefore, their presence shall enable you to give it with more satisfaction to yourselves, I shall accept it with pleasure.

With sentiments of high respect, I am, etc.