Tax Commissioners of Lancaster County to the Auditors, with a Note by Jefferson, 7–12 April 1781

Tax Commissioners of Lancaster County to the Auditors, with a Note by Jefferson

Lancaster, 7 Apr. 1781. If the bearer, Mr. Job Carter, applies for an order on the treasurer for his expenses in carrying dispatches to the governor and treasurer, he is to be given the customary allowance. Reply follows: “In Council Apr. 12. 1781. If the Auditors shall be satisfied that the bearer came for the purpose of bringing the tobacco notes and not on private business, the board are of opinion he should be allowed as an express. Th: Jefferson.”

RC (Vi: Contingent Fund Vouchers); 1 p.; signed by Henry Towles, James Tapscott, and James Gordon, “Commisrs of Tax.” TJ’s note, in his own hand, is on verso.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Tax Commissioners of Lancaster County to the Auditors, with a Note by Jefferson, 7–12 April 1781
Authors: Tax Commissioners of Lancaster County
Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Auditors
Date: 7–12 April 1781

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Cite as: “Tax Commissioners of Lancaster County to the Auditors, with a Note by Jefferson, 7–12 April 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-05-02-0473. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 5, 25 February 1781 – 20 May 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, p. 373.]