On hearing that President James Madison had approved $4 per day to cover Dougherty’s expenditures in bringing TJ’s library to Washington, D.C., Dougherty submitted an estimate of his daily “traveling expences”: hiring of horses, $1.25; breakfast, 50 cents; dinner, 75 cents; supper and lodging, 75 cents; and four gallons of oats and hay, 87½ cents, for a total of $4.12½ per day. He added that “To go the upper road to monticello—being a Country rout; the above charges would, perhaps, be considerably lessened” (Dougherty to Samuel H. Smith, 28 Mar. 1815 [DLC: J. Henley Smith Papers]). Madison agreed to a per diem of $5 in light of Dougherty’s estimate, although he considered it too high. If Dougherty asked for still more, Madison suggested that someone else could probably be hired, but added that if no one suitable could be found for $5 he would go as high as $6 for Dougherty, to whom he was inclined to give “the preference” (Madison to Smith, 8 Apr. 1815 [NNGL, on deposit NHi]). Dougherty accepted the offer of $5 per day (Dougherty’s Note on the Transportation of TJ’s Library, 11 Apr. 1815 [DLC: J. Henley Smith Papers]).

Madison submitted the treaty ending the War of 1812 to the United States Senate on 15 Feb. 1815, but it adjourned (adj) for the day with the matter still under consideration. The upper house unanimously ratified the treaty on the following day (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 2:618–20).