RC (DLC: Madison Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mar. 1809 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Madison, 12 Mar. 1809, noting that the pace of work on the public buildings had slackened; proposing accordingly that, instead of filling the vacant post of clerk of the works at its salary of $1,400, he would oversee its duties himself if his son were engaged to assist him as an additional clerk with a salary of $600; noting that the public would save not only the $800 difference between these two salaries but also the $150 cost of renting a separate office; and requesting payment of $700 for the preceding six months during which Latrobe had acted as clerk of the works himself (RC in DLC: Madison Papers; printed in Latrobe, Papers description begins John C. Van Horne and others, eds., The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1984–88, 3 vols. description ends , 2:703–4).