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| Field name |
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| Collection Reference Number
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GLC00043.25
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| From Archive Folder
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Documents relating to Presidential Pardons
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| Title
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Decision in the cases of Munnikhuysen and Sadler, owners of the schooner Martha
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| Date
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18 December 1794
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| Author
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Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1757-1804)
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| Document Type
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Government document; Legal document
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| Content Description
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Signed by Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. Munnikhuysen and Sadler were convicted of violating "...'An Act concerning Spirits distilled within the United States' and 'An Act for enrolling & licensing Ships or Vessels employed in the Coasting trade & fisheries and for regulating the same'..." Penalites and forfetiures remitted, as the violations were unintentional, but ordered to pay costs.
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| Subjects
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Law Alcohol Merchants and Trade Taxes or Taxation Maritime Commerce Pardon
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| People
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Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1757-1804)
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| Place written
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Theme
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The Presidency; Law; Banking & Economics
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| Sub-collection
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The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
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| Additional Information
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Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
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| Copyright
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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| Module
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Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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| Transcript
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Show/hide To all to whom these presents shall come I Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury of the United States send Greeting- Whereas a statement of facts wit the Petition of Munnikhuysen and Sadler Owners of the Schooner Martha of Baltimore thereunto annexed, touching on certain penalties and forfeitures incurred under the statutes of the United States entitled [inserted: An Act, repealing& passed the third day of March 1791] and "An Act fro unrolling& licensing Ships or Vessels employed in the Coasting trade& fisheries and for regulating the same" was on the twelfth day of September last past transmitted to me the said Secretary of the Treasury by direction of the Judge f the United States for the District of Maryland-pursuant to the Statute of the United States entitled "Any Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the Revenue Laws in certain Cases therein mentioned" as by the said statement of acts and Petition remaining in the Treasury Department of the United States may fully appear. And whereas I the said Secretary of the Treasury, have maturely considered the said statement of facts and Petition-and it doth appear to my satisfaction that the said penalties& forfeitures were incurred without willful negligence or any intention of franc. Now therefore know ye, that I the said Secretary of the Treasury in consideration of the Premises and by cite of the power and authority to me given by the said last mentioned statue have decided to remit and by these presents do remit to the said Munnikhuysen& Sadler all the right claim and demand of the United States and of all others whomsoever to the said Penalties& forfeitures, they the said Munnukhuysen& Sadler first paying the duties Costs& chares attending the proceedings in the Premises to be assessed b the Judge of the District aforesaid. Given under my hand and sea of Office and in the City of Philadelphia in the State of this Eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety four, and in the Nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States. Alexander Hamilton
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