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Enclosure II: Estimate of the Foreign Establishment, 5 November 1792
II
Estimate of the Foreign Establishment
Estimate of the ordinary expence of the different diplomatic grades, annually.
| A Minister Plenipotentiary. | A Resident. | Agent. | |||||
| D | D | D | D | D | |||
| Outfit 1/7 of | 9000. | 1285.71 | Outfit 1/7 of | 4500. | 642.85 | Salary. | 1300 |
| Salary | 9000. | Salary | 4500. | Extras | 350 | ||
| Secretary | 1350. | 1650. | |||||
| Extras | 350. | Extras | 350. | Medals to foreign ministers, suppose 5. to be kept here & to be changed once in 7. years will be about 654.6 annually. | |||
| Return 1/7 of | 2250. | 321.42 | Return 1/7 of | 1125 | 160.71 | ||
| 12307.13 | 5653.56 | ||||||
| To support the present establishment would require | a Reduction of the establishment, to bring it within the limits of D 40,000. | ||||
| D. | |||||
| for | Paris. Minister Plenipoty. | 12,307.13 | for | Paris. a Minister Plenipty. | 12,307.13 |
| London. do. | 12,307.13 | London. do. | 12,307.13 | ||
| Madrid. Resident | 5,653.56 | Madrid. a Resident | 5,653.56 | ||
| Lisbon. do. | 5,653.56 | Lisbon. do. | 5,653.56 | ||
| Hague. do. | 5,653.56 | Hague. an Agent | 1,650. | ||
| Medals to foreign ministers | 654.6 | Medals to for ministers | 654.6 | ||
| 42,229.54 | Surplus. | 1,774.02 | |||
| 40,000. | |||||
Th: Jefferson
Nov. 5. 1792.1
MS (DNA: RG 59, MLR); entirely in TJ’s hand; with altered date, as noted below. PrC (DLC). FC (Lb in DNA: RG 360, DL). Tr (Lb in DNA: RG 59, SDC). Recorded in SJPL.
1. TJ wrote this date after rubbing out “Oct. 21.” In the PrC he lined through the original date and wrote the new one underneath.