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Monroe, James
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- Letter signed to Stevens T. Mason and Wilson C. Nicholas. Richmond, 10 February 1802
- paper, ink
Two pages (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.; 223 x 185 mm.), signed “Jas. Monroe” as Governor of Virginia and addressed to U.S. Senators Stevens T. Mason and Wilson C. Nicholas.
Literature
Daniel Preston, A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of James
Monroe (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), vol. 1, p. 119.
Monroe (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), vol. 1, p. 119.
Catalogue Note
Transcript:
Richmond, February 10th 1802
Gentlemen,
I have to request you will be pleased to adjust for the Commonwealth the account of its expenditures during the conspiracy of the slaves in the year 1800, in guarding the arms of the United States in Manchester, and other expenses attending those arms, with the proper department of the General government. For that purpose I send you a statement of the Auditor of publick accounts of the amount actually paid on that account, which I wish you to receive of the department with which it is adjusted and remit to me or the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. I send you also a statement of like expenses attending the protection [2] of the arms at New London, which lay exposed through the whole of that distressing period, which you will also be so good as to have adjusted and the amount remitted here in like manner. This latter claim has not been paid, because it was thought that it would be as agreeable to the general government to pay the same in the first instance, as to reimburse the state for the advance. The statement sent is such as would be allowed by our auditor of publick accounts if the demand was paid by the state; to which I have to add that if it is preferred that the payment be made by the state to its own citizens, and it reimbursed by the general government, that that course will be pursued as soon as you advise me of it.
I am Gentlemen with great respect & esteem
Your obedient servant,
Jas. Monroe
Richmond, February 10th 1802
Gentlemen,
I have to request you will be pleased to adjust for the Commonwealth the account of its expenditures during the conspiracy of the slaves in the year 1800, in guarding the arms of the United States in Manchester, and other expenses attending those arms, with the proper department of the General government. For that purpose I send you a statement of the Auditor of publick accounts of the amount actually paid on that account, which I wish you to receive of the department with which it is adjusted and remit to me or the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. I send you also a statement of like expenses attending the protection [2] of the arms at New London, which lay exposed through the whole of that distressing period, which you will also be so good as to have adjusted and the amount remitted here in like manner. This latter claim has not been paid, because it was thought that it would be as agreeable to the general government to pay the same in the first instance, as to reimburse the state for the advance. The statement sent is such as would be allowed by our auditor of publick accounts if the demand was paid by the state; to which I have to add that if it is preferred that the payment be made by the state to its own citizens, and it reimbursed by the general government, that that course will be pursued as soon as you advise me of it.
I am Gentlemen with great respect & esteem
Your obedient servant,
Jas. Monroe