From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Nourse, 1 August 1794
To Joseph Nourse1
Treasury Department, August 1, 1794. Sends a list of acts of Congress making appropriations “for the service of the year 1794, and for making good deficiencies, the sums following.”2
Copy, RG 53, Register of the Treasury, Estimates and Statements for 1794, Vol. “136-T,” National Archives.
1. Nourse was register of the Treasury
2. This list constituted Nourse’s warrant for making the payments authorized by Congress. The warrant is countersigned by Oliver Wolcott, Jr., comptroller of the Treasury.