RC and enclosure, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A–E2). Each RC 1 p.; in Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM. The enclosed account (1 p.), dated 7 Jan. 1815 and signed by Register of the Treasury Joseph Nourse, showed that of the $20,000 appropriation for contingent expenses, $6,200 had been paid to Washington, D.C., superintendent Thomas Munroe for costs associated with the British invasion of the city on 24 Aug. 1814: “preparing a building for the accomodation of Congress, … repairing the damage done to said building by the storm on the 25t: of August last, and … collecting and preserving the property removed from the public buildings on the night of the Conflagration, and subsequent thereto.” The balance of $13,800 would “be accounted for in a future Settlement.”