Thomas Jefferson’s Request for Warrants for Funds for University of Virginia, [ca. 15 August 1821]
Request for Warrants for Funds for University of Virginia
[ca. 15 Aug. 1821]
The Auditor is requested to issue two warrants for moieties each of the within sum of 29,100.D. the one for one moiety in favor of the bank of Virginia to be deposited there to the credit of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, the other for the other moiety in favor of the Farmer’s bank of Virginia to be deposited there to the same credit.
Th: Jefferson Rector.
MS (Vi: RG 12, Literary Fund Disbursements); undated; with Resolution of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 6 Aug. 1821, on verso, and both items docketed in an unidentified hand: “20 Aug. 1821 Rectors & Visitors of the University of Virginia $14.550 Lit Fund ½ of Loan made by the Literary fund—see law passed 24 Feb: 1821”; with attestation in a clerk’s hand beneath signature, dated Auditor’s Office, 20 Aug. 1821, and signed by Thomas Clarke on behalf of the Bank of Virginia acknowledging receipt of a warrant for $14,550; followed by attestation in James E. Heath’s hand and signed by him, that a warrant for $14,550 was “presented at the Treasury by Mr Mayo & the amount deposited in the Farmers Bank of Virginia to the Credit of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.” Enclosed in TJ to Heath, 15 Aug. 1821.
Index Entries
- An act concerning the University of Virginia (1821) search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); and University of Virginia search
- Clarke, Thomas; and Bank of Virginia search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); and University of Virginia search
- Heath, James Ewell; as Va. auditor of public accounts search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Request for Warrants for Funds for University of Virginia search
- Literary Fund; and loans for University of Virginia search
- Mayo, Mr.; and Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; and Bank of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; and Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond) search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; Request for Warrants for Funds for University of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; and loans for University of Virginia search