1From Thomas Jefferson to Jacquelin Ambler, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners of the Federal buildings having desired the President to draw on you for the monies unpaid and payable on the part of the state of Virginia towards those buildings, the President has this day drawn on you in their favor for the second instalment of those monies. He has been obliged so to express it, without specifying the sum, because it happens that no copy of the act...