RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 5 Oct. 1823 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) A Statement of the Revenue Tax for the year 1821, arising on Lands, Slaves, and other property, dated Virginia Auditor’s Office, 3 Dec. 1821, and signed by Joseph Jackson, clerk of accounts, and James E. Heath, auditor of public accounts, giving the amount of tax paid by every Virginia county on lots, land, slaves, horses, studs, coaches, stages, and gigs, respectively; including taxes on licenses issued to merchants, peddlers, keepers of ordinaries and “houses of private entertainment,” and “exhibitors of shows”; deducting, among other things, the cost of sheriffs’ commissions and reductions for prompt payment; and totaling $395,728.26 (broadside in Vi). (2) “A Statement shewing the amount of Taxes on lands, Slaves, horses, carriages, licenses to merchants, pedlars, exhibitors of shows, ordinary keepers, keepers of houses of private entertainment, law process seals of Courts, Notarial seals, and on tobacco shipped also the amount of militia fines, payable in each of the great districts of Virginia,” broken down by district and county, with the district west of the Allegheny Mountains paying $35,076.30, nearly 9 percent of the total; that between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains paying $70,336.95, nearly 15 percent; the district between the Blue Ridge and the Tidewater paying $190,725.44, nearly 40 percent; and that below the Tidewater paying $179,570.11, roughly 37.5 percent (MS in ViU: TJP; in an unidentified hand; undated, but “made up from the Taxes &c payable in 1821”). (3) A statement of the Revenue Tax for the year 1822, arising on Lots, Land, Slaves, Horses, Carriages and Licenses, dated Auditor’s Office, 2 Dec. 1822, containing similar information and signed by the same officers as the first enclosure above, but totaling $398,407 (broadside in ICU).