From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 23 December 1806
December 23. 1806.
To the House of Representatives
of the United States
I now lay before you Accounts of the sums which have been expended by the United States on the Capitol, the President’s house, the public offices, the Navy yard, and the Marine barracks respectively, & the amount expended on other objects of public expence within the city of Washington as requested by your resolution of the 15th. instant.
Th: Jefferson
DNA: RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.