To James Madison from Elihu Stout, 2 January 1807 (Abstract)
From Elihu Stout, 2 January 1807 (Abstract)
§ From Elihu Stout. 2 January 1807. “Please to pay the within account to Luke Tiernan & Co. or order.”1
RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, No. 19,043). RC 1 p. Immediately below this letter are written two undated orders: one signed Luke Tiernan & Co. to pay Ralph Higinbothom; another signed by Higinbothom to pay William Whann. For enclosure, see n. 1.
1. Stout signed and enclosed an account dated 6 December 1806 (1 p.) totaling $83 for “Publishing Laws of the United States in the Indiana Gazette, passed at the first session of the ninth Congress, containing one hundred and sixty six pages at fifty cents per page.” The account was certified by William Henry Harrison on 2 January 1807. Filed with these documents is a 10 February 1807 statement, written and signed by Pleasonton (1 p.), recording and certifying the statement for Stout: “To publishing in his Gazette at Vincennes, the laws of the First Session of the Ninth Congress, being 163 pages @ 50 cents. Dollars 81.50”; this was the amount paid to all other publishers of this set of laws on record (see, for example, Thomas Perrin Smith to JM, 2 Jan. 1807, n. 1).