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Enclosure: To Robert Morris, [13 August 1782]

[Enclosure]33
Expences of our internal Government

To the Governor for salary £ 1600
To the Chancellor do 400
To the Secretary of State & Clerks about 300
To the Attorney General by estimation 100
 
To the Chief Justice salary 400
  Puisne Justices each 350£ do 700
  for travelling expences by estimation 40 days 100
  in the year at 12/ per day each
  Auditor 300
  Aide De Camp to the Governor Lt. Col Pay & rations 360
  Occasional do. at the same rate
Delegates to Congress 34/ pr day while attending and 6 days going and coming abt 1500
Treasurer Salary 300
Members of Legislature 8/ per day, upon an average [– –] members for 88 days
   ⟨including coming &c.⟩;		 1936
two Clerks of do. each 20/ a day for 72 days 144
     time actually together
two Door Keepers each 10/ pr day do 72
Printer for printing laws &c. about 300
      Incidental expences
8412
To the poor annually about 500  
6588
To the Indians do 600  
⟨charges⟩; of Militia expresses occasional officers & other
   occasional demands allowd		 6088   3500
15884
Regtr say £ 12000
£ 1500034

Transmitted a copy of the above to Mr. Morris

Aug. 1782

33. AD, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

34. There is an error in this column for the figures in it do not total £15,000.

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    “Enclosure: To Robert Morris, [13 August 1782],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0057-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 143–144.]