Expenditures for the Civil List for the Year 1793.

Item

Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Title

Expenditures for the Civil List for the Year 1793.

Description

Report on Estimates of the Expenditures for the Civil List of the United States for the Year 1793.

year created

1792

month created

11

day created

14

sent from location

Philadelphia

in collection

note

Includes 27 pages of estimates.

notable person/group

Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury
Speaker of the House of Representatives [Frederick Muhlenberg]
War Department

notable location

Philadelphia

notable item/thing

civil list
expenditures for the support of government
incidental and contingent expenses
deficiencies in former appropriations
funds heretofore estabished
payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors, witnesses, etc.
support of the light houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers
probable expenditures of the War Department
pensions to invalids
appropriations
duties on imports and tonnage
Act making provision for the debt of the United States
surplus
sums appropriated for the use of the War Department
schedule herewith transmitted
revenue
demands for the public service
power to borrow
expenditure of two several sums
demands on the United States
settlement of the treasury
payment in specie

notable phrase

But as some deficiencies may possibly happen and as partial anticipations of the revenue will probably be requisite to face the demands for public service, as they accrue, it appears essential that a power to borrow should accompany the grant.

document number

1792111490000

Document instances

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Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Alexander Hamilton Philadelphia [n/a]
Recipient Speaker of the House of Representatives [unknown] [n/a]