Estimate of State Department Expenses, 7 December 1793
Estimate of State Department Expenses
Estimate of the Expenses of the Department of State, at Home; for one year, commencing 1st. January 1793.
| Dollrs. | ||||
| The Secretary of State’s salary | 3,500 | |||
| One Chief Clerk’s do. | 800 | |||
| 3 Clerk’s-(an additional one will probably be requisite) | say |  |
2,000 | |
| Clerk for foreign Languages’ salary | 250 | |||
| Office keeper and messenger’s do. | 250 | 6,800 | ||
| Stationary of all kinds | 240 | |||
| Firewood | 200 | |||
| Cts | ||||
| Office rent | 266,67 | |||
| newspapers from the different States abt. 20 @ 4 dollrs. | 80. | |||
| Gazettes from, and Gazettes sent to Am. Ministers abroad | 25. | |||
| Laws of the 1 Session of the 3d. Congress, to be published in 5 newspapers. at about 100 dollrs. each | |
500 | ||
| Printing an edition of the Same, to be distributed according to law | |
700 | ||
| For Binding | 50 | 2,061.67 | ||
| Deficiencies in the appropriation of the present year | ||||
| for Extra Clerks employed preparing documents laid & to be laid before Congress | say | |
600 | |
| For an index to the Laws of the 2d. Congress | 200 | 800 | ||
| 9.661.67 | ||||
Department of State
Decr. 7. 1793.
Th: Jefferson
PrC (DLC); in the hand of George Taylor, Jr., signed by TJ; with “1793” added by Taylor in ink in heading and dateline. Recorded in SJPL.
This document was compiled for Alexander Hamilton’s use in preparing a report submitted to the House of Representatives on 23 Dec. 1793 concerning the federal government’s revenue estimates for 1794 ( xv, 552–5, 558, 561).