Purchasing land for fortifications
Document 1794Secretary Hamilton informs Secretary Knox that no general Instructions have gone from the Treasury to the Collectors relative to the purchase of the lands on which fortifications might be erected. Encloses a memorandum of all the cases in which cessions and purchases have been made. The treaty for the purchase of the land on which the fortifications are erecting at Baltimore has been suspended.
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Printed Document
Description
Secretary Hamilton informs Secretary Knox that no general Instructions have gone from the Treasury to the Collectors relative to the purchase of the lands on which fortifications might be erected. Encloses a memorandum of all the cases in which cessions and purchases have been made. The treaty for the purchase of the land on which the fortifications are erecting at Baltimore has been suspended.
Date
12/17/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Treasury Department
Collection
Document number
1794121740200
Note
Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of War, Third Congress, National Archives.
Notable persons
Henry Knox
Alexander Hamilton
collectors
Notable locations
Treasury Department
Baltimore
Notable items
fortification
land
memorandum
cession
purchase
treaty