TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FINANCE 1 (ROBERT MORRIS) - Thomas Jefferson, The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786) [1905]
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- Notes On Virginia ( Continued )
- Query Xii a Notice of the Counties, Cities, Townships, and Villages?
- Query Xiii the Constitution of the State and Its Several Charters?
- Query Xiv the Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws?
- Query Xv the Colleges and Public Establishments, the Roads, Buildings, &c.?
- Query Xvi the Measures Taken With Regard of the Estates and Possessions of the Rebels, Commonly Called Tories?
- Query Xvii the Different Religions Received Into That State?
- Query Xviii the Particular Customs and Manners That May Happen to Be Received In That State?
- Query Xix the Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Interior and Exterior Trade?
- Query Xx a Notice of the Commercial Productions Particular to the State, and of Those Objects Which the Inhabitants Are Obliged to Get From Europe and From Other Parts of the World?
- Query Xxi the Weights, Measures and the Currency of the Hard Money? Some Details Relating to Exchange With Europe?
- Query Xxii the Public Income and Expences?
- Query Xxiii the Histories of the State, the Memorials Published In Its Name In the Time of Its Being a Colony, and the Pamphlets Relating to Its Interior Or Exterior Affairs Present Or Antient?
- Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1783
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To General Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison 1
- To the French Minister. (chevalier De La Luzerne.)
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs. (robert R. Livingston)
- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To James Madison 2
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To John Jay
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison
- Proposed Constitution For Virginia 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison
- To Charles Carter
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To James Madison
- Report of Committee On Unfinished Business 1
- Report On Definitive Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolutions Relating to British Treaty. 1
- Report On Letters From the Ministers In Paris 2
- Report On Ceremonial For Washington 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Ratification of Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- 1784 - to James Madison
- Motion On Ratification of Treaty 1
- Fair Copy
- Rough Draft
- Resolution On Definitive Treaty 1
- Ratification of Definitive Treaty 2
- Draft For Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To Oliver Pollock
- Draft of a Report On the Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Others 1
- Rough Draft
- Fair Copy
- Report On Letter From John Allan 1
- Draft of Report On a Committee of the States 1
- Report On Committee of the States 1
- To the Superintendent of Finance 1 (robert Morris)
- To James Madison
- Draft of Deed of Cession of Northwest Territory 1
- Report On Government For Western Territory 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Reduction of Civil List 1
- Instructions For Negotiating With Indians. 1
- To George Washington
- To George Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolves On European Treaties 1
- Report of Government For the Western Territory 1
- Report On Cession of Western Territory. 1
- Report of the Arrears of Interest 1
- To George Washington
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison.)
- To George Washington
- Notes On the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage For the United States 1
- Motion On Steuben. 1
- Notes On the Permanent Seat of Congress. 1
- Resolutions For the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. 1
- Resolve On Continental Congress
- To George Washington
- To James Madison
- Report On Mercer 1
- Draft of “an Ordinance Establishing a Land Office For the United States” 2
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To Horatio Gates 1
- Report On Continental Bills of Credit 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary Appointed to Negotiate Treaties of Commerce With the European Nations 1
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To Benjamin Franklin 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison.
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To Horatio Gates 1
- 1785 - to Nathanael Greene 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To James Monroe
- To Mrs. Sprowle
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To Richard Henry Lee
- To the Virginia Delegates In Congress
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst 1
- To John Adams 1
- To Dr. Richard Price
- To John Jay
- To James Monroe 1
- To David Hartley
- To Mary Jefferson 1
- To Mrs John (abigail) Adams
- To Hogendorp (count Gysbert-charles Van)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst
- To Phillip Mazzei
- Conference With the Count De Vergennes On the Subject of the Commerce of the United States With France. 1 1785.
- Correspondence 1786
- To Dr. James Currie
- To the Governor of Virginia. 1 (patrick Henry.)
TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FINANCE (ROBERT MORRIS)
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[February 1, 1784]
A grand Committee of Congress is now engaged in preparing estimates of the necessary federal expenses of the present year from the first to the last day of it inclusive and of the articles of interest on the public debts foreign & domestic which call indispensably for immediate provision while the impost proposed ultimately for their discharge shall be on it’s passage through the states; these estimates are to lead to a new requisition of money from the states, but the commee have hopes that this new requisition may be lessened if not altogether dispensed with provided a full compliance can be obtained with the former requisitions of Nov. 2. 1781 for 8 millions of dollars & of Octob. 10 1782 for 2 millions of dollars. They suppose that the requisn of 8 millions was greater than all the objects of it did in event require. They suppose further that some of these objects have been transferred to other funds. Of course there will be a surplus remaining after all the demands against this requisition which have been paid & payable out of this fund. In like manner 2 m having been part of 6 millns estimated on a war establmt and peace taking place immediately after, they expect a surplus may remain on this also after all paiments made & to be made out of it. These surplusses which will be reached by no former appropriation & which are therefore fairly open to be newly appropriated they ask of you to estimate according to the best of your information, that they may see how far an enforcement of them will go toward supplying the demands of the current year: but that they may know how to call on the several states to pay up their deficiencies, it will be necessary also for you to inform them what proportion of these requisitions had been paid up by each state to the 1st day of Jan. 1784.
Another object claimed the attention of the Commee. By a vote of Sept. 4, 1782, 1,200,000 Dollars were required from the states for the special purpose of paying interest, with a permission to them to pay first out of their quotas the interest on loan office certificates and other liquidated debts, loaned or contracted in their own states, so that the balance only was to be remitted to the Continental Treasury. Have any such balances been remitted, or have you any information how far the several states have proceeded, in compliance to comply with this requisition by paimt of interest within their own state? Or loan office certificates? If you have we shall be obliged to you for it.
A former commee had been appointed to revise the civil list and to adapt it to the change of circumstances which peace has induced. They have gone through that work & reported except so far as it relates to the department of Finance, by which I mean to include the establishments of in the several offices of the Superintendt., Comptroller, Auditor, Register, Treasurer, & the Commers. for settling the accts in the several states, and the accts of the Staff departments. They hope from your letter in answer to one written you by Dr. Williamson their chairman that you are turning your attention to this subject and that you will be so kind as to inform them whether any of the offices or officers may be dispensed with under present circumstances so as to lessen it’s expenses without endangering more substantial loss, a true & laudable œconomy being their object. I take the liberty of mentioning this subject to you only because the Grand Commee under whose instructions I write to you, will of course be delayed in their estimates till the other commee shall have made a full report on the civil list.
With you I know it is unnecessary to urge as early an answer as is practicable and have therefore only to add assurances of the sincere respect & esteem with which I have the honor to be, &c.
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