From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February 1805
To the Senate and
the House of Representatives
To the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States.
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established by the act of May 1. 1802. for defraying the contingent charges of government. No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of 18,560. Dollars unexpended on the 31st. day of December 1803. when the last account was rendered by message, that balance has been carried to the credit of the Surplus fund.
Th: Jefferson
Feb. 28. 1805.
RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. PoC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. FC (DLC); in TJ’s hand. Recorded in SJL with notation “contingent fund.” Enclosure: statement of account, Register’s Office, 25 Feb. 1805, noting that from the grant of $20,000 on 1 May 1802, $18,560 remains unexpended and “subject to the orders of the President,” the same balance as of 31 Dec. 1803 (MS in DNA: RG 233, PM, in a clerk’s hand, signed by Joseph Nourse, at head: “Account of the Fund established for defraying the Contingent Charges of Government for the Year 1804,” endorsed by a House clerk; MS in DNA: RG 46, LPPM, in a clerk’s hand, signed by Nourse, endorsed by a Senate clerk).
For the last account detailing the 1803 report to Congress, see Vol. 42:216.
Isaac A. Coles delivered this message to the Senate and the House of Representatives. In both chambers it was read and ordered to lie on the table. TJ’s message and the enclosed report were subsequently printed (, 3:462; , 5:152; Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Annual Account of the Fund for Defraying the Contingent Charges of Government, for the Year 1804 [Washington, D.C., 1805]).