[PRIVATE] Suspending the Recruiting Service

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[Private] Private New York March 3. 1800 D Sir I am told, though I really have not seen the law, that one has passed suspending the Recruiting Service for the Twelve Additional Regiments. You are aware that an instruction from your Department ought to precede my agency upon that law. Yours truly A Hamilton The Secy of War

Type

Copy of document

Description

If it is true that has a law has been passed suspending the recruiting service for the twelve additional regiments, instructions from the War Department should precede Hamilton's agency upon that law.

Date

03/03/1800

Recipient

Sent from

New York

Collection

Document number

1800030340100

Notable persons

Alexander Hamilton
James McHenry
recruits
regiment
agency

Notable locations

New York
War Department

Notable items

law
recruiting service
instruction