6821Estimate of State Department Expenses, 7 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Estimate of the Expenses of the Department of State, at Home; for one year, commencing 1st. January 1793. Dollrs. The Secretary of State’s salary 3,500 One Chief Clerk’s do. 800 3 Clerk’s-(an additional one will probably be requisite) say } 2,000 Clerk for foreign Languages’ salary 250 Office keeper and messenger’s do. 250 6,800 Stationary of all kinds 240 Firewood 200
6822From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 12 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Humphries having charged Mr. Church our Consul at Lisbon to send us information of the truce between Algiers and Portugal by an Express vessel, he engaged one under Swedish colours to come here with his letters. She is now lying at New York at our expence. Thinking it material to save as much of the expence as we can, by permitting her to be freighted back to Lisbon to which place she is...
6823From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 29 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The amount of the last warrant for money for the contingent expences of the office for foreign affairs being laid out, I take the liberty to enclose an account of them, with the vouchers , and to request the favour of you to order a further sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the contingent expences of the office of the Secretary of State. I have the honor to be &c. FC ( Lb in DNA : RG...
6824From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 10 Apr. 1792 . Requests that a warrant be issued on the United States Treasurer for 500 dollars payable to George Taylor, Jr., “for defraying the contingent expenses of the department of State.” FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ); at head of text: “To the Secretary of the Treasury.” Not recorded in SJL .