Account for the President’s Furniture Fund, 31 December 1814 (Abstract)
Account for the President’s Furniture Fund, 31 December 1814 (Abstract)
§ Account for the President’s Furniture Fund. 31 December 1814. Shows a $6,000 debit against the account of the United States with Lewis Deblois, agent for the President’s furniture fund, consisting of $4,712.40 in “Sundry payments from Vouchers No. 1 to 55 Included” and $94.24 for Deblois’s two percent commission on the above amount for a total of $4,806.64 in charges against the United States; and a $1,193.36 “Balance unexpended.” Credits the United States $6,000 by three $2,000 warrants issued to Deblois, and shows the unspent $1,193 as due to be refunded by him. Signed and dated by Deblois and also by JM, with his note: “Approved.”
Written in pencil below the descriptions in the debit column, probably by an auditor’s office clerk, are notations indicating that the three $2,000 warrants, numbered 6278, 6009, and 6936, were issued on 17 and 24 Aug. 1813, and 3 Feb. 1814, respectively. There follow notes by Patrick Ferrall, chief clerk of the auditor’s office, deducting $22.31 from Deblois’s voucher total for “Sundry Overcharges as Noted on Abstract” and $.44 for his commission on that amount, reducing the total charges “Admitted” to $4,783,89.
Ms (DNA: RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, no. 29,494). 1 p. Filed with the account, along with Deblois’s vouchers (179 pp.), is his 31 Dec. 1814 abstract of the account (5 pp.), on which Ferrall listed errors totaling $22.31 that he found on four of the vouchers. Also filed with the account are Ferrall’s 9 Jan. 1815 restatement of the account on behalf of the United States (1 p.), noting that it covered Deblois’s purchases, beginning 15 Mar. 1813, of “Chairs Tables, Sofas Linen of various kinds Carpetting, Crockery & Glass Wares and Kitchen furniture &Ca. &Ca.,” and listing the $22.31 in errors; a 9 Jan. 1815 statement (1 p.) signed by John S. Haw, a clerk in the register’s office, giving the numbers, dates, and amounts of the warrants issued to Deblois; and auditor Richard Harrison’s letter to comptroller Ezekiel Bacon, 10 Jan. 1815 (1 p.), stating that Deblois owed the United States $1,216.11 “to be accounted for in a future Settlement,” with acting comptroller Nathan Lufborough’s 14 Jan. 1815 note on the verso: “Admitted and Certified.”