Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of Funds and Expenditures for Central College, [by 30 December 1817]
Estimate of Funds and Expenditures for Central College
[by 30 Dec. 1817]
| D | C | ||
| Albemarle1 | Glebe lands. | 3,195 | .86 |
| Subscriptions | 27,610 | . | |
| Fluvanna. | 2,590 | ||
| Nelson | 2,052 | ||
| Lynchburg | 900 | ||
| Richmond | 820 | ||
| Williamsbg | 200 | . | |
| Spotsylvania | 400 | . | |
| Charles city | 500 | ||
| Orange. | 30 | ||
| amount of papers returnd2 | 38,297 | .86 | |
| the following are by information | |||
| Orange & Louisa about | 3,000 | . | |
| Cumberland | 3,000 | ||
| Goochland | 800 | 3 | |
| Winchester | 1,200 | ||
| 8,000 | 4 | ||
| Estimate of the objects of application. | ||||||
| D | C | |||||
| Land. | 1,518. | 75 | ||||
| hire of laborers for 1818. | 1,000. | |||||
| Professor of languages. | his pavilion & Dormitories. | 7,000 | ||||
| Salary deposit | 8,333. | 33 | ||||
| Physiological professor. | pavilion & Dormitories | 7,000 | ||||
| Salary deposit | 16,666. | 67 | ||||
| Mathematical. | Pavilion | 3,000 | 44,518. | 755 | ||
| Dormitories | 4,000 | |||||
| Salary Deposit | 16,666. | 67 | ||||
| Ideological. | pavilion & dormitories | 7,000. | ||||
| Salary Deposit | 16,666. | 67 | ||||
| Proctor | Salary Deposit | 8,333. | 33 | |||
| 97,185. | 426 | |||||
| 2. boarding houses | 6,000. | |||||
MS (ViU: TJP-Co); written in TJ’s hand on both sides of a half sheet; undated. MS (NNGL, on deposit NHi); written in TJ’s hand on both sides of a half sheet; undated. FC (ViU: TJP); written in TJ’s hand on verso of last page of 2d Dft of Central College Board of Visitors to James P. Preston, 6 Jan. 1818; undated. Dft (photocopy in ViU: ECUVa); written in TJ’s hand on both sides of a small scrap; undated. Tr (ViU: JCC) in Joseph C. Cabell’s hand; with section on funds following that on expenditures; undated; at head of text: “Central College.” Enclosed in TJ to James Madison, 30 Dec. 1817, TJ to Madison, David Watson, and John H. Cocke, [2 Jan. 1818], and TJ to Cabell, 6 Jan. 1818.
1. Tr heads this table “Funds of the Central College.”
2. Instead of preceding four words, Dft reads “known.”
3. Reworked from “8,000.”
4. Rectos of each MS and of Dft end here.
5. NNGL MS and Tr here add “(so far we go this year).” Dft adds “for the year 1818.”
6. ViU: TJP-Co MS, FC, and Dft: “97,185.09.” Correct sum supplied from NNGL MS and Tr.
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