From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 14 January 1811 (Abstract)
§ To the House of Representatives
14 January 1811. Transmits reports of the superintendent of the city1 and the surveyor of the public buildings2 on the subject of the House resolution of 28 Dec. 1810.
Printed copy (Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports of the Superintendent of the City, and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings … [Washington, 1811; 24231]); enclosures (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). For enclosures, see nn. 1 and 2.
1. JM enclosed an “Account of the Expenditure of the money appropriated on the 1st. of May 1810 for compleating the Capitol, and other purposes,” including a list of the expenditures on the north and south wings of the Capitol and also the President’s House, totaling $31,466.60 (2 pp.). Attached to this is a receipt for the salaries of the surveyor of the public buildings and Italian sculptors, totaling $1,033.40 (1 p.; signed by Thomas Munroe, superintendent of the city, 4 Jan. 1811).
2. See Latrobe to JM, 3 Jan. 1811, and n. 2.