Notes on the District of Columbia Commissioners’ Accounts, [after 3 October 1801]
Notes on the District of Columbia
Commissioners’ Accounts
[after 3 Oct. 1801]
| Elliptical room | 2276. | |
| Pr’s house | 1686 | |
| Board | 1700 | |
| September labour | 1300 | |
| Interest paid | 1500 | |
| 84621 | ||
| whole funds | 6255.94 | |
| present deficiency | 2206.062 | |
| 6962. | ||
| D. | ||
| debts due to the Commissioners | 130,000 | |
| due on Morris & Nicholson’s lots 1000. | 80,000 | |
| 3000. f. front of water property @ 10. D. | 30,000 | |
| 4600. lots of 5265. sq. f. each | 460,000 | |
| no lot ever sold for less than 105. D | ||
| due from them | ||
| debts guaranteed | 300,000 | |
| unguaranteed | 50,000 | |
| price of site | 6247.18 | |
| paid | 4000 | |
| 2247.18 | ||
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, District of Columbia Miscellany); undated, but see below; entirely in TJ’s hand.
TJ probably composed these notes sometime after his receipt of the District of Columbia Commissioners’ Estimate of Debts dated 2 Oct. enclosed in their letter to him of 3 Oct. Several of the words and figures, from “Elliptical room” to “whole funds,” correspond to the information given in the 2 Oct. statement. See also the memorial from the commissioners to TJ of 4 Dec.
1. After TJ totaled the first four items above, making $6,962, he added the line for “Interest paid” of $1,500, overwriting the original total of $6,962, and provided the new total of $8,462.
2. TJ first wrote “706.06” before he revised the total above to include the $1,500 for “Interest paid.” He then recalculated the “present deficiency” and altered the figure to $2,206.06.