Requests List of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies
Document 1794Requests list of military, naval, and Indian supplies. Outlines procedures.
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Treasury Department
Revenues Office April 24th 94
Sir
The Secretary of the Treasury having conferm the con-
ferences, I had the honor to hold with you, informed me, that he has communicated
to you the arrangement for recovering the military posts, of Indian supplies
of Prizes thro' this Office. I beg to request that you will favor me with a
descriptive note of all Agent, the extent of which, had become relative, together
with the times & places at which they must be Supplied. Where such descriptive
notes from considerations relative to future appropriations, it will be material
& indeed to me to the Secretary of the Treasury, from whom they can be regu-
larly transfered to this Office.
The result of the steps commenced will contain from matters possi-
ble to assure your satisfaction & it will be useful to know as early as may be
communicated
Upon all future occasions when the public Service may require supplies
contracts &c you will be pleased to direct the only for return and transmission
of similar discriptive notes of the objects to be procured as the matters to be
done through the means of this office.
I have the honor to be
with great respect Sir
your most Obt Servant
Tench Coxe
Commissr of the Revenue
The Secretary of War
Type
Letterbook
Description
Requests list of military, naval, and Indian supplies. Outlines procedures.
Date
04/14/1794
Author
Recipient
Document number
1794041440002
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Tench Coxe
Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Iron Masters
Commissioner of the Revenue
Notable locations
Treasury Department
Revenue Office
Notable items
conference
military supplies
naval supplies
Indian supplies
Contracts
descriptive note
funds
appropriations
iron
public service
supplies

