James Madison Papers

Account of State Department Salaries, 31 March 1807 (Abstract)

Account of State Department Salaries, 31 March 1807 (Abstract)

§ Account of State Department Salaries. 31 March 1807, Department of State. “The United States, Drs, To the Secretary of State, Clerks and Messenger in his office, for one quarters’ Salary, commencing the 1st day of January and ending the 31st day of March 1807, viz,

        “ Dollars
“James Madison, Secretary of State 1,250
“Jacob Wagner, chief Clerk 500
“Daniel Brent, Clerk 250
“Christopher S. Thom     ″ 225
“Stephen Pleasonton       ″ 250
“Bernard Smith               ″ 200
“Richard Forrest             ″ 225
“John P. Maul, Messenger 102 .50
“ 3,002 .50 ”

MS (DNA: RG 217, First Auditor’s Accounts, No. 19, 223). 1 p.; in Pleasonton’s hand, signed by JM.

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    Account of State Department Salaries, 31 March 1807 (Abstract)
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    Pleasonton, Stephen
    Madison, James
    Date
    31 March 1807

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    “Account of State Department Salaries, 31 March 1807 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-13-02-0587. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 13, 1 November 1806–31 March 1807, ed. Tyson Reeder, J. C. A. Stagg, Anne Mandeville Colony, Ellen D. Goldlust, Mary K. Wigge, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, pp. 560–561.]