Brumbaugh`s Collection: Correspondence, US Capitol - 1837-1853

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[[margin note, written bottom to top]]P. 285 March 11 - 1837
V-77
Comptroller [[/margin note]]
Contract with John Vanderlyh & John [[G.?]] Chapman Leon. Jarvis.
for Paintings for the Capitol.
Filed in the Comptrollers Office on the 13 March 1837 JW Van
[[Gauth?]]
folio 140
Treasury Dept
13 Mar 1837
The within contract was filed in this department on the 10th inst & is
referred to the Comptrollers to be filed & recorded in his office
M. C. Young.
R
Mr Chapmans address is No 62 White St. New York
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The committee propose to the artists who undertake the execution of the
pictures in the rotunda
1st That the subject of each picture shall come fairly and obviously
within the scope of the joint resolution
2nd That the Committee or some authority assignated by it shall have
the right to reject the subject if it should not be [[?]] within the scope of
the said resolution
3d That the pictures be executed with reasonable dispatch
4th That the frame in which a picture is to be placed shall be selected by
the [[?]] President and Speaker of the House
5th That ten thousand dollars shall be given for each picture of which
some usual advances shall be made in the
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progress of the work.
6th That the pictures shall be of different subjects and in case of
courtesy of choice the Speakers and vice Prest. shall select.
These proposals are underwritten by
W. C Preston
Leon Jarvis
[[right margin]] Chairmen of the Committee [[/right margin]]
We accept the above proposals
JW Vanderlyn
Jn. G. Chapman
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know this contract Messieurs Vanderlyn and Chapman are entitled to
draw $2000 each of their appropriation
Wm. G. Preston
Leon Jarvis
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[[underlined]] Ord[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] the 8th [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] 5th Oct [[/underlined]]
Oct. 3d 1837.
Mr Jas. Milliken
Secretary Phoenix Iron Company
Philadelphia.
Dear Sir,
Be so good as to forward for the floor of the attic story of the connecting
corridors, of the Extension U.S. Capitol-Thirty five (35)^[[insertion]] Rolled [[/insertion]] Iron Beams each twenty
seven (27) feet long and 9 "inches deep.
The above are wanted as soon as possible
Respectfully
Your Obt. Sevet.
[[?]]
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[[right side]]
Cap. Supt. Office 15 Aug 53
[[in pencil]][1853, Aug 17][[/pencil]]
[[Gen?]] P. G. Washington
Asst Sec. U.S. Treasury
My Dear Sir
Much of my cement all the marble & many other supplies come from
N.Y. or beyond there.
I should like to be able to place funds in the Subtreasury at N York in
order to pay for this - I should save a half of one percent to the creditors
of the Government & save the U.S. the expense of bringing specie hereThere was some difficulty with Maj [[Frazer?]] I understand that
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Specie directly to the employer at the end of the month. This will
[[prevent the?]] [[despicable?]] [[theory?]] at the Treasurer's doors & will
save the time of the men also--but I hope to have no check
[[strikethrough]] dis [[/strikethrough]] dishonored because it is below any
limit. The treasurer is better paid for keeping the money than we are for
[[divining?]] the ways & means of spending it judiciously & economically
We have enough to do. Let him keep it all.
Very Respectfully Yours
M. C. Meigs
[[?]] in [[which Cap Supt?]] & [[Wash?]] [[agreement?]]
[[in pencil at left]] Q M General & Maj. Gen [[/in pencil at left]]
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The N.Y. Subtreasurer [[expects?]] to receive his money on deposit. & a
supervising asstn supt. [[illegible?]] they refer me to you for information.
Will it be safe for me to [[send?]] a Treasurers draft in N.Y. to the
Subtreasurer & to check against it. Or has not the proper arrangement
been made yet?
Permit me to express my gratification at the change lately made. The
U.S. never keeps its own money & the disbursing officers know of
[[alowed?]] of Responsibility.
Now first the Subtreasury law can be literally carried out
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I intend to endeavor for my part to [[?]] in doing so strictly. & I hope no
difficulty of limiting the crush of checks will be made. If checks for odd
values paid to accts are necessarily as implicated as if the smallest amts
are allown. It makes no considerable difference to the Treasurer
whether we pay $125.37 or $5.37. The difference to the officer is very
great as he would be obliged to keep in his cash box loose species &
the responsibility will remain & his accts be complicated.
I propose always to draw out in the lump the amt of my payments & to
disburse the [[strikethrough]] gold [[/strikethrough]]
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