1From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Tax for Albemarle County, 26 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The law requiring that the tobacco notes received by you in payment of the two per cent. tax, under the act of October 1780, for recruiting our quota of continental troops, should be transmitted to the Executive, you will be pleased to transmit them accordingly, so soon as they shall be received, the tobacco being much, and immediately wanted, to provide clothing for the soldiers. Any...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Tax, 28 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Law requiring that the Tobacco Notes received by you in Paiment of the two per Cent Tax under the Act of October 1780 for recruiting our quota of Continental Troops should be transmitted to the Executive, you will be pleased to transmit them accordingly so soon as they shall be received, the Tobacco being much and immediately wanted to provide Cloathing for the souldiers. Any deficiency of...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Tax for Culpeper and Prince William Counties, 2 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Application for Money for your New Levies has been laid before the board. Tho’ it does not seem proper to order the Money to be advanced from the Treasury without the Tobacco being first received, yet such is the emergence and so necessary to have the men in the field that Money would have been sent you had the requisite Sum been specified, but that is not mentioned in your Letter nor any...