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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) to william seton (Private.) - The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 9
to william seton (Private.) - Alexander Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 9 [1774]Edition used:The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge (Federal Edition) (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). In 12 vols. Vol. 9.
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- Miscellaneous Papers
- Defence of the Funding System
- The Assumption of the State Debts ( Continued From Vol. Viii .)
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- To the Provincial Congress of New York. 1
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- To William Duer, M.C. 1
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- To Baron Steuben
- Narrative of an Affair of Honor Between General Lee and Col. Laurens 1
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- To Major Lee Or, In His Absence, Capt. Mclane
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- Du Portail and Hamilton to Washington 1
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- To John Laurens 2
- To Governor Clinton
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- To Colonel Richard K. Meade
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- To Gouverneur Morris
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- To William Seton (private.)
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- To a Friend
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- To William Seton (private)
- To William Seton (private.)
- To William Seton (private.)
- To the Directors and Company of the Bank of New York
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to william seton
(Private.)
June 26, 1792. Dear Sir:
This accompanies an official letter. I acknowledge I doubt the accuracy of the opinion of the attorney-general on the last point. A law is not to be so literally construed as to involve absurdity and oppression. The Legislature might reasonably restrain its officers from future buying and selling of stock, but could not reasonably prevent their making a disposition of property which they had previously acquired according to the laws of their country.
At the same time, for greater caution, I should in my own case follow the strict interpretation.
All my property in the funds is about $800, 3 per cents. These, at a certain period, I should have sold, had I not been unwilling to give occasion to cavil.
The restriction itself, as it respects the officers of the treasury, and I rather think the commissioners of loans, is a wise and unexceptionable one.
But the propriety of its further extension is not obvious, and I doubt whether it will be lasting. The act passed in a prodigious hurry.
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