Memorandum from Thomas Munroe, 18 February 1804 [document added in digital edition]
Memorandum from Thomas Munroe
[before 18 Feb. 1804]
Amount of monies Expended by the Superintendant of the City of Washington under the Presidents Direction, out of the $50,000 voted by Congress last Session
| 1716 | .65 | |||||||||||
| On the | Capitol | 24,831 | .79 | +1200 | . | = | 27,748 | .44 | ||||
| Roads or Highways | 4,750 | .51 | +100 | = | 4,850 | |||||||
| Presidents House | 973 | .14 | +670 | = | 1643 | |||||||
| B, H, Latrobe on Acct. of Salary & to purchase materials in Phila. for Capitol & P Ho. | 1,716 | .65 | ||||||||||
| Ds | 32,272 | .09 | ||||||||||
| Estimate of outstanding claims | ||||||||||||
| Capitol, about | $1200 | |||||||||||
| P House | 670 | |||||||||||
| High Ways | 100 | 1,970 | . | |||||||||
| 34,242 | .09 | |||||||||||
| 50,000 | . | |||||||||||
| Unexpended, about Ds | 15,757 | .91 | ||||||||||
MS (DLC); undated; in Munroe’s hand; figures in italics added by TJ in pencil.
It is uncertain when Munroe supplied TJ with this account of expenditures, but it evidently related to the 1803 congressional appropriation for public buildings, which allocated part of its $50,000 to keeping roads in repair. On 16 Sep. 1803, Munroe indicated that about $28,000 of the appropriation remained unexpended, while on 18 Feb. 1804 he reported that a little less than $10,000 remained, an estimate echoed in the report that Benjamin Henry Latrobe submitted two days later (U.S. Statutes at Large, 2:235–6; Vol. 41:390; Vol. 42:503–4, 516).