To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 16 March 1808
Statement of the Expenditure of the $15,000 appropriated 3d March 1807 for repairs & improvements on the Presidents house & Lot.
estimated to be due | Amt. paid | ||
Amt. of Accounts settled & properly charged to that fund | $6,800.90 | ||
Cost of wall and Gates built, & materials remaining to be used | 5,567. | 3255. | |
Cost of Colonade | 1,226. | 2,705. | |
Carpenters work | 600. | ||
Bricklayers & Painters work &c about | 500. | ||
Amount Advanced for Opening & repairing Avenues & roads & making way &, rendered necessary by enclosing the Presidents square but which the road fund was insufficient to pay | 3,644.79 | ||
7,893.— | 1,6408.69 | ||
7,893. | |||
Ds. | 24,301.69 | ||
Deduct from the above | |||
The Amt. advanced for roads not properly chargable to the Appropriation for improving Presidents house & lot | $3,644.79 | ||
Paid for claims against the Presidents house prior to the Appropriation of the above $15,000 | 1,737.44 | 5,382.23 | |
Ds | 18,919.46 | ||
Amt of Appropriation | 15,000. | ||
Amt expended on the Presidents square in 1807 over & above the Sum Appropriated for that purpose | } | $3,919.46 |
DLC: Papers of Thomas Jefferson.