To James Madison from Zachariah Lewis, ca. 25 February 1807 (Abstract)
From Zachariah Lewis, ca. 25 February 1807 (Abstract)
§ From Zachariah Lewis. Ca. 25 February 1807. “The Secretary of State is requested to pay the Amount of the above Bill, & the Amount for publishing the Laws of the last Session of Congress, to the Hon. James Hillhouse.”1
MS (DNA: RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, No. 19,098). 1 p. Undated; date assigned based on the date of Lewis’s account (see n. 1). Appended to Lewis’s account with the State Department for “4 Sets of the Spectator, sent to the Custom House in NewYork, from Jan. 1.* 1806 to Jan. 1. 1807” for a total of $16. The asterisked note, written in a different hand, reads: “charged in former accot. to the 1st. Apr. 1806.”
1. Filed with this document is Lewis’s account, written in Pleasonton’s hand, dated 25 February 1807, and certified by Wagner (1 p.): “For publishing in New [sic] Paper the laws of the United States, passed 1st. Session 9th. Congress—Pages 163 @ 50 Cents,” totaling $81.50, and “For 4 sets of the Spectator sent to the Custom House in New York from April 1st. 1806 to Jan. 1st. 1807 @ 4 Dollars each (⅌ Ann.),” totaling $12, with a grand total of $93.50.