Martin Dawson’s Report on Central College and University of Virginia Accounts, 23 November 1822, document 7 in a group of documents on the Inspection and Settlement of the Accounts of Central College and University of Virginia, 23 November 1822

VII. Martin Dawson’s Report on Central College and University of Virginia Accounts

Agreeably to the instructions1 of the Visitors of the University of Virginia, I have made out a book of the transactions of the Central College: Also, a set of books of the transactions of the University of Virginia. The balance from the books of the Central College is carried into the books of the University of Virginia; from the face of

the2 last mentioned books, the money paid away, and contracted to be paid away, amounts to					$226,161	61½
The credits on said books, viz:
Glebe lands,			$3,104	09
President and directors of the Literary Fund,			170,054	00
Subscription to the Central College,3	$44,345	33
Deduct depending to collect from subscribers,	*18,343	43½
			26,001	89½
					199,159	98½

					$27,001	63
To meet this balance, there is depending to collect from the subscribers to the Central College, as above,*			18,343	43½
And in addition to this, other debts unpaid to creditors,			8,658	19½4

MARTIN DAWSON.

Milton, 23d November, 1822.

Printed in Report and Documents for 1822 description begins Report and Documents respecting the University of Virginia, Richmond, 1823, containing a 7 Oct. 1822 report by the Board of Visitors and supporting documents description ends , 26. MS (ViU: JHC); in an unidentified hand; undated; subjoined to Document 8 below, Dawson’s Balance Sheet for the University of Virginia, 23 Nov. 1822. Enclosed in TJ to James Pleasants, 23 Dec. 1822.

1. MS: “resolution.”

2. Report and Documents: “he.” MS: “the.”

3. Line in MS to this point reads “Subscription Book A.”

4. MS ends here.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Martin Dawson’s Report on Central College and University of Virginia Accounts, 23 November 1822, document 7 in a group of documents on the Inspection and Settlement of the Accounts of Central College and University of Virginia, 23 November 1822
Author: Dawson, Martin
Date: 23 November 1822

Reference

Cite as: “Martin Dawson’s Report on Central College and University of Virginia Accounts, 23 November 1822, document 7 in a group of documents on the Inspection and Settlement of the Accounts of Central College and University of Virginia, 23 November 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0137-0008. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 181–182.]