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24th Congress, [ Kep. No. 849. 1 Ho. of Reps; 
 
 l5^ iSessioti 
 
 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 July 2, 1836. 
 Read, and laid upon the table. 
 
 Mr. Cave Johnson, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to whicli 
 the subject had been referred, made tlie followmo- 
 
 REPORT: 
 
 The Committee of Wa^s and Means, to ivhich the subject had been 
 referred, made the following rejwrt : 
 
 On the 16th of April last, the House of Representatives passed the 
 lollowmg resolutions : ^ 
 
 On motion of Mr. Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, 
 Resolved Thni the report of the Secretary of State, dated 22d of 
 December, 1834, numbered 36, among the documents of the First 
 session of the 23d Congress, and the papers accompanyino- the same be 
 referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, with th? foilowino-' in. 
 structions : *^ ^& "^ 
 
 1QO?' "^'^.i^q^'^e into the propriety of repealing the act of the 2d March 
 lb3o, anu rescinding the contract made by virtue thereof, by Edward 
 Livingston, on the part of the United States, and Clarke and Force for 
 the publication of the " Documentary History of the Revolution" and to 
 pay the expenditures incurred by said publishers in consequence of said 
 
 2d. If that is not proper to be done, then to inquire into the propriety of 
 better regulatmg said contract, directing the number and size of the 
 volumes, and the sum to be paid for the same, and the time for the completion 
 of said publication, and the best and proper means of superintendino- said 
 publication, and directing the documents to be inserted in said publication 
 
 In execution of the foregoing resolutions of the House, the Committee 
 of AVays and Means appointed Messrs. Johnson and Smith, of their number 
 a sub-committee, to inquire and report upon the subject to said committee' 
 And the following is the report of the sub-committee, which was ordered 
 by the Committee of Ways and Means to be made to the House • 
 
 The sub-committee of Ways and Means, in prosecuting the purpose of 
 the resolutions as the House of Representatives passed on the 16th April 
 1836, on the subject of the Documentary History of the United States' 
 proposed to be published by Messrs. Clarke and Force, addressed to those 
 gentlemen, as a preliminary proceeding, a letter, of which the followina- is 
 a copy : ^ 
 
 "Washington, House of Representatives, 
 
 April 21, 1836. 
 Gentlemen : The undersigned, a sub-committee, of the Committee of 
 Ways and Means, to whom has been referred the resolution of the House 
 
 Blair & Rives, printers. 
 
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 of Representatives of the IGlh instant, relating to your proposed pub- 
 lication of Documentary History, retiucst you to meet them ut liie room of 
 the above named committee, in the Capitol, at any hour during which the 
 House shall not be in session in the current week, that sliall suit your con- 
 venience, (Saturday morning being excepted,) for the purpose of the pro- 
 ceedings contemplated by said resolution. 
 
 An early notice to us of the time you may designate for such m.eeting, 
 will greatly oblige, most respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servants, 
 
 C. JOHNSON, 
 FRANCIS O. J. SMITH. 
 Messrs. Clarke and Force." 
 
 In accordance with the request of said letter, Messrs. Clarke and Force 
 met the sub-committee at the period mutually agreed upon, wdien the sub- 
 ject of their alleged contract with Mr. Livingston, as Secretary of State, 
 was discussed freely, and various explanations of its proposed character and 
 merits, w^ere entered into by those gentlemen. Nevertheless, nothing de- 
 rinite was accomplished, either in relation to their relinquishment of the 
 contract, or to the purpose of imposing upon the publication any additional 
 restrictions for the benefit or security of the Government. The parts of 
 the w^ork said to be in print, as also the manuscript papers collected for the 
 further prosecution of the publication, were proposed to be exhibited to the 
 sub-committee, at any time it might suit their convenience to call at the 
 publication office of Messrs. Clarke and Force ; and full assurance was 
 given by tlieni; that no concealment of any information in their possession 
 relating to the work, was, or could be, desired. 
 
 But no certain period for such examination was agreed upon, as has been 
 alleged, and said to have been understood, by Messrs. Clarke and Force. 
 It wlis left contingent upon the wish of the sub-committee, wdiether to examine 
 tlie print and manuscript or not. The sub-committee, however, were per- 
 suaded, upon reflection, that the points of inquiry that interested the House 
 111 the matter were but few, and oi a general, though controlling, character, 
 and that for this reason the most judicious and satisfactory course of pro- 
 ceeding on the part of the sub-committee, would b3 to confine themselves 
 exclusively to such points, and with as much directness as practicable. 
 Tbev nccordinij-ly addressed Messrs. Clarke and Force a second letter, of 
 which the following is a copy : 
 
 "House of Representatives, April 26, 1836. 
 
 To enable us to comply with tiie resolution of the House, it w'lW be 
 necessary for us to ascertain upon what terms the contract can be 
 rescinded? 
 
 You will oblige us by communicating the most flivorablc terms upon 
 which that can be done, and the amount of money necessary to be paid 
 
 you. 
 
 We are, respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servants, 
 C. JOHNSON, 
 FRANCIS O. J. SMITH. 
 Messrs. Clarke and Force." 
 
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 To this letter the sub-conimittec received a reply, spread over thirty -two 
 densely written pages. Tliirly-one of the ildrly-two pages of the reply, 
 [irofessed to be no more nor less than •'' some rt/narks explanatory and 
 dffensive^ which they conceive to he ?'ec/uired by the course of the recent 
 debate in the House of Representatives on the coidracl relating to their 
 proposed Docuinentary History^ 
 
 The only j)orlion of the thirty-two pages which affects to reply to the 
 last named letter of the sub-committee, is contained in the following 
 •extract : 
 
 •^ Your letler, gentlemen, of the 2Gth ultimo, requests the undersigned 
 to state to you the most favorable terms on which their contract can be 
 rescinded, and the amount of money necessary to be paid to them. They 
 answer, that the imputations on their integrity, which are the staple of tlie 
 recent attacks in tlie House of Representatives on their contract, leave 
 them, in their present views of the subject, no power to assent to a rescis- 
 sion of the agreement, without implicitly admitting the justice of those 
 imputations. \i the contract was fraudulent on their part, they deserve 
 severe punishment, instead of terms of compromise. If it was not fraud- 
 ulent, they are entitled to the performance of the stipulations to which it 
 binds the Government. They approached Congress not as mendicants, 
 but as the proposers of an enterprise, from which their country was to 
 receive a great benefit, and to pay a fair equivalent. However willing they 
 might be to waive their pecuniary rights, self-respect forbids them to par- 
 ticipate in any arrangement which could be construed into a compromise 
 of their characters as honest men." 
 
 Such a reply, to say nothing of the character imparted to the remaining 
 ihirty-one pages of Messrs. Clarke and Force's letter, — v/hich were not 
 required by the sub-committee's letter, according to Messrs. Clarke and 
 Force's own sense of that letter, but in their own estimation only required 
 <-by the [then] recent debate in the House," — served to leave the sub-com- 
 mittee no alternative by which to attain any satisfactory result in behalf 
 of the Committee of Ways and Means, through the aid of said contractors, 
 m relation to a rescinding of the contract. Under these circumstances, 
 they recurred to the printed documents of the House connected with the 
 >^ubject, and specially referred to the Committee of Ways and Means by the 
 House, to furnish the suggestion of some new mode of proceedings by 
 which to elicit the true character of the contract in question; and to secure 
 the proper measure of justice to the Government on the one hand, and to 
 Messrs. Clark and Force on the other. 
 
 In these documents, page 5, the law of Congress upon which the alleged 
 contract between the late Secretary of State and Messrs. Clarke and Force 
 is based, is copied. From this paper, it appears that the Secretary of State 
 v/as limited in his price for the ])roposed Documentary History, so ^-that 
 (he rate of expense should not exceed the actttal cost per volume of the 
 Diplomatic Correspondence uoid [then] printing, or heretofore printed, 
 under the direction of the Secretary of StateP Power is also given by 
 the law to the Secretary of State, to agree whether work should be printed 
 m octavo or folio. 
 
 On the same page is recited the contract that purports to have been made, 
 in pursuance of such law of Congress, between the Secretary of State and 
 Messrs. Clark and Force. 
 This contract recites as its foundation, the substance of the law, and, 
 
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 verbatim^ the proviso of the law specifically limiting tho price as abavo 
 stated. It then proceeds as follows : " and whereas it has been mutually 
 agreed upon that the said work shall be printed in folio; and whereas it 
 has been ascertained, hij the report of the agent of the Department of 
 State, that the edition of the Diplomatic Correspondence now printinsf, 
 will cost two dollars and twenty cents per volume; and whereas tiie 
 said Secretary is satisfied that, with a good and copious index, said cost 
 would hav^e been worth two dollars and thirty-one and one-half cents per 
 volume of five hundred and forty-four pages, which would amount to the 
 cost of four mills and one-tburth of a mill per page of said edition ; and 
 whereas the folio edition now to be published by said Clarke and Force, is 
 to contain on each and every page four times the amount of matter, on 
 precisely the same type of that edition ; now, therefore,'' tfc.c. 
 
 Upon the foregoing recital, the agreement provided for the payment to 
 Messrs. Clarke and I'^orce, at the above named rate of one cent and seven- 
 tenths of a cent per folio page, for 1500 copies of ilie proposed work, 
 without any limitation as to the number of volumes the work v/ould em- 
 brace, or the number of pages that each volume would contain. 
 
 The sub-committee think it must be conceded on all sides, as the rule 
 
 of equity, and alike the rule of law, that it is no less a part of Messrs. 
 
 Clar ke and Force's before named contract, that the sum specified in said 
 
 ■contract, as having been ascertained to be the actual cost of '' the Diplo- 
 
 jnxtic Correspondence," was so in truth and in fact, than is the clause that 
 
 toiuds theii^ to deliver the work for that price. Moreover, that the under- 
 
 takin""'©f each party to said contract, inseparably blended with every article 
 
 thereof, is, that iJi", contract is in all particulars in conformity to the law 
 
 upon which it is hoimd. In a word, there cannot be claimed on either 
 
 side that is, bv either the Government or Messrs. Clarke and Force, any 
 
 validity for said contract, in any particular ivhlch is fomid^ upon iitvesti- 
 
 a-ation to he a departure from the terms and intent of ilie law recited, 
 
 that law being the only existing authority for it. Nor can any distinction 
 
 be set np by which this rule, of both equity and law, is less applicable to 
 
 that part of said contract which defines the character of the work. Does 
 
 the effect of the contract debar Congress from the inquiry, whether the 
 
 work set forth in said contract be the" same as that contemplated by the law 
 
 of that contract? or from rescinding so much of it as might be found not 
 
 -to be, in truth and in fact, conformable to the work contemplated by said 
 
 ,law J 
 
 It is not conceived how such a position can be entertamed for a moment 
 'by any one ; but with as little propriety can Congress be debarred at any 
 -time, by either the term, or spirit of said contract, from tlie inquiry, whether 
 THE PRICE set forth in siiid coulracl be conformable t^ the price conic77i- 
 plated by the law of that conlraet ; or from declaring void so much of it 
 iis flight be found not to be, in truth and in fact, conformable to the jiricc 
 contemplated by said law, in their legislation upon the subject connected 
 with llie execution thereof; nor does Ihis necessarily involve the exercise 
 of jud^i^cial functions, not incident to the powers of Congress, over the sub- 
 ject. 
 
 Keeping in view this obviously sound, equitable, and le^al rule of coiv- 
 ■struing the alleged contract, the sub-committee proceeded to inquire whether 
 the pr^ce set forth therein be, in truth and in fact, the price contemplated 
 
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 by the law npon which the contract is bound ; and whether, in regard to 
 the price set forth, tlic contract be binding upon Congress or not? 
 
 To guide this inquiry, the following paragraph in jiage 31 of the before 
 named docunitnts was noted, it being part of a letter addressed by Messrs. 
 Clarke and Force to the Secretary of State, subsequently to the date of the 
 alleged contract, viz: 
 
 " From pajiers in the Department of State, the Secretary will find that 
 the juinting of the work, taken as the standard of allowance, teas j)aid for 
 at Congress prices, and that before the first account was approved of, the 
 bill was referred io ilic Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk (f tlie House of 
 Representatives, upon whose corrections the account v.'as adjusted, and all 
 acco/iTits svhseq'iie)i.llij paidJ^ 
 
 This statement suggested the propriety of examining into the ptipers 
 thus referred to by Messrs. Clark and Force, and a letter was accordingly 
 addressed to the Secretary of State, of whicli a copy is annexed to this re- 
 port, maiked A, witli a copy of the reply tlieieto, marked B. A letter was 
 addressed also to experienced publishers, upon the subject of the actual 
 cost of printing and binding, including paper, of the same character of the 
 Diploniatic Correspon.dence. A copy of this letter is hereunto annexed, 
 marked C, with letters received in reply, marked D, E, F. 
 
 By the papers accompanying the above tiamed letter B, from the Secretary 
 of State, it will be perceived that, in conducting the reference and correc- 
 tions of Mr. Blair's account, by which the prices of the series of Diplomatic 
 Correspondence selected by the law in question were to be fixed, and by 
 whicli the prices to be paid to Messrs. Clarke and Force for their work were 
 also ultimately to be determined, these gentlemen themselves (the one as 
 Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the other as his chosen referee,) 
 officiated, with two other gentlemen, as principal agents of the Government. 
 When this fact appears, the disinterestedness assumed by the contractors 
 for the estimated cost of the work cannot but be in some degree impaired, 
 if all dependence upon it ought not to be abrogated. It is not enough that 
 :i part of the appraisers or referees were disinterested, hut all should have 
 been so. to have given full autliority to their re{)ort. 
 
 If it be said, in reply, that the above estimate of prices in regard to Blair 
 and Rives's publication of Diplomatic Correspondence, in which Messrs. 
 Clarice and Force, in tlieir capacities stated, Vvcre parlicipants, bears date 
 on February 1 and 2, 1833, which was anterior to the passage of the law 
 in March, 1833, authorizing the contract, and, therefore, was antecedent to 
 any existing interest in the matter of it on the part of Messrs. Clarke and 
 Force, then' this reply is in turn met by the recorded fact that, as early as 
 January 21 next preceding, the same bill which became a law was reported 
 in the Senate upon the petition of Messrs." Clarke and Force themselves, 
 and on the succeeding day in the House of Representatives, providing, in 
 so many words, that the actual cost of this same Diplomatic Correspon- 
 dence, or of that published by Mr. Sparks, sliould govern the price to be 
 paid to Messrs. Clarke and Force for the proposed Documentary History ; 
 and the bill containing this pro])Osition was pending at the moment the 
 above reference by Messrs. Lowrie and Clarke iras made to Mr. Force 
 and another, in the manner already detailed. The interest, then, of Messrs. 
 Clarke and Force in this reference was not only prospective, but actually 
 pending, and in the manner, v/hich Congress was most obviously ignorant 
 of, when the law upon which tlie contract is baeed was enacted ; besides 
 
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 tliis, it is to be remarked that the refcrence has no relation to any item of 
 the " actual cost"' of the Diplomatic Correspondence, besides that of th;^ 
 printino; alone. 
 
 Bnt it appears that the orijrinal and g-enuinc papers referred to in the 
 above extract from Messrs. Clarke and Force's letter, as being in the De- 
 partment of State, are no lou^-cr to he found there. (Sea Mr. Forsyth's letter 
 in the appendix to this report, marked B.) Bnt we have, it is said, what is 
 " believed to be substantially" the same. There may be some question on 
 this point, as Mr. Blair's account, said to have been referred and corrected 
 hi/ these papers, before payment, is receipted as having been settled and 
 paid by the agent of the Department of State, on the 1st day of Jamiary. 
 1S33; while these papers communicated as substantially those by which 
 tliis account tvas corrected hefore payment^ bears date February 1 and Fe- 
 bruary 2, 1833. The query arises, if this account underwent correction, 
 according to the report of such referencOj as late as Feltrnary, why is it 
 dated as having been settled and paid as early as January, 1833? This 
 query gives additional force to one which the mind must have antecedently 
 suggested : why have the original papers of reference been taken from the 
 files of the Department of State, and by whom? 
 
 But taking the report of the agent of the State Department thus given, 
 and which served as the guide of the '= actual cost'' of the diplomatic cor- 
 respondence in Mr. Livingston's contract with Messrs. Clarke and Force, 
 and it is obvious that Mr. Livingston, the Secretary of State, did not him- 
 self examine into the elements of the alleged '• actual cost," but took upon 
 trust the statement made by his agent. The inquiry then arises, was the 
 statement of the agent taken as the " actual cost" of the Diplomatic Corre- 
 spondence in the contract with Messrs, Clarke and Force, and as the price 
 to be allowed for the Dociimentary History, the "actual cost,"' or true ])ricej 
 which Congress had In view hy the law of March 2d, 1833, authorizing a 
 contract? 
 
 It is respectfully submitted, as the opinion of the snb-commi tee, that it 
 was the intention of Congress, by the phrase " actual cost," to limit the 
 price of the Documentary History to that ichich would he a fair and rea- 
 sonahle pnhlication price for the Diplomatic Correspondence ; and that it 
 was not the intention of Congress to assume, as the "actual cost" of the 
 worlv, all the disbursements v.-hich Goveninirnt miffht hare 'made from 
 time to time, and in different uays, on account of that irork. If reference 
 be had lo the various items of these disbursements, contained in the state- 
 ments hereto annexed, marked AA and BB, derived from the State Depart- 
 ment, it must, we think, appear obvious, that Congress had not in contem- 
 plation any such arrangement. It will be seen that " hack hire," " drayage," 
 "freight," and "pen-knives," and other items, are en^braced by them, equally 
 foreign, it is believed, from the contem])lation of Congress. It is l)elieved 
 that tlie true intent of Congress, in imposing upon tlw; price of the work 
 proposed bv Messrs. Clarke and Force, a limitation, l)y the term "///c actual 
 cost of the Diplomatic Correspondence," V\''as to have the " actual cost" of 
 such a work' minutely ascertained, and the prices of tht; requisite paper, 
 printing, binding, copying, editing, and collecting material, fairly and fully 
 investigated, and a contract .shaped accordingly. If improper or extrava- 
 gant prices should be found in the disbursements tliat had been made upon 
 the Diplomatic Correspondence, in either of the particulars just ennmerated. 
 or in any other particnlar. tlie intent of the law obviiuisly rcqm'rcd their 
 
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 rejection and disallowance on the part of the Secretary of State, in comput- 
 ing- the "actnal cost" of that work. But it is an established fact, tiiat no 
 such investigation was had by the Secretary of Slate, or by the agent acting 
 for him ; and that only the aggregate of the appropriations of Congress, 
 expended on account of the work, was ascertained, and this aggregate, 
 divided by the number of volumes which the Government received, and 
 the dividend thus acquired, was taken as the "actual cost" of the work, 
 witliin the meaning of Congress. 
 
 The committee believe such a process, though conducted, it is presumed, 
 in perfect good faith by both the Secretary of State and his agent, is wliolly 
 unjust towards Congress, and inadmissible ; and, although adopted in the 
 contract made thereafter, it is not, and ought not, to be regarded as valid, 
 because it is a wide departure from, and disregard of, the intent and pro- 
 visions of the law upon which the contract is bound. 
 
 On reference to letters from experienced publishers, already alluded to 
 and appended hereto, njarked C, D, E, F, it Vv'ill appear manifest that the 
 '•actual cost" of such a work as the Diplomatic Correspondence, incluchng 
 paper, printing, and binding, and exchiding the compiling and editing of 
 the work, does not much exceed twenty -five "per cent, of the amount claimed 
 by Messrs. Clarke and Force, as the actual cost of their proposed work. A 
 just execution of the intentions of Congress, in the act of March 2, 1833, 
 according to the foregoing construction put upon that act by the committee, 
 would diminish the cost of the Documentary rlistory to Congress, in a sura 
 exceediiig ^200,000, though a very liberal and even extraordinary price were 
 allowed lor collectipg the material of the work ; and although there should 
 be superadded thereto a compensation for editing, much exceeding the rate 
 of $400 per volume, the sura allowed to Mr. Sparks. Your committee, 
 therefore, recommend to the House, lor adoption, the following resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That the contract entered into by Edward Livingston, as Se- 
 cretary of State of the United States, with Matthew St. Clair Clarke and 
 Peter Force, on the nineteenth of March, eighteen iunidred and thirty-three, 
 for the publication of a •■ Documentary HisUory," is not, in regard to th(^ 
 price of said work tlierein set forth, in conforujity to the act of March 2, 
 1833, recited in said alleged contract, and is not, therefore, of any validity, 
 so far as the price assumed therein, as "the actual cost" of said work, con- 
 stitutes a part thereof. 
 
 Resoloed, That a joint committee of t!ie two Houses of Congress, con- 
 sisting of five, be appointed to adjust with said Clarke and Force the price 
 of said work, upon the principles of the aclual cost thereof, laid down iu 
 the foregoing report, and report the same for the ratification of Congress ; 
 or, on failure thereot", to report what sum would he just and ecpiitable to be 
 allowed to said Clarke and Force, as an indemnification of them, on the part 
 of Con2:res3, for the loss arising out of the disagreement relating to the 
 price of said work, and the consequent omission of Congress to accept the 
 same. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of 
 Representatives, be directed to suspend the acceptance of any volumes of 
 said work, until otherwise ordered by Congress. 
 
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 A. 
 
 House of Rp^presentatives, U. S. 
 
 Washinglon. Jmib 4, 1S3G. 
 
 Sir: In the alleged contract of your predecessor in office with Messrs, 
 Clarke and Force, dated March LV), 1833, (or fifteen hundred copies of their 
 proposed "Documentary History of the American Revohition," rcterence 
 is made to " tlie report of the then agent of the State Department," on the 
 cost of said work. 
 
 And in a letter of Messrs. Clarke and Force to yourself, as Secretary ot 
 State, dated October 10, 1834, and appended to your special report to Con- 
 gress, dated December 22, 1834 ; which report constitutes House Document 
 iVo. 36, of the second session of the twenty-third Congress, reference is 
 made (see page 31 of said document,) to the first account " that was adjusted 
 for the pubhcation of a work e]ititled '• Diplomatic Corres};ondence," ;ind 
 the "corrections" in said account by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk 
 of the House of Representatives. 
 
 In behalf of the Committee of Ways and Means, I write to obtain, as early 
 as the convenience of your Department will advise, a copy, in detail, of the 
 above named " report" of the agent of the State Department ; also a copy 
 of said "first account," and of the "corrections" thereof above described. 
 
 I have tlie honor to be, 
 With great respect, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 FRANCIS O. J. SMITH. 
 Hon. John Forsyth, 
 
 Secretary of State of the U. S. 
 
 B. 
 
 Departmekt op State, 
 
 Washingtuu, Jiirte 6, 183G. 
 
 Sir : I have the honor to transmit, herev.'ith, agreeably to your request, 
 copies of the first account settled with F. P. Blair, for printing and bind- 
 ing the Diplomatic Correspondence from 1783 to 1789, being for 1,000 
 copies of the first volume; and of the certificate of Messrs. towrie and 
 Clarke, secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives 
 of the number of ems contained in the page of Congressional documents, 
 and the prices paid therefor; and the number of ems contained in a )i.'ige 
 of the Diplomatic Correspondence, printed l^y F. P. Blair, ujion which his 
 account was adjusted. 
 
 Tlie report made by the agent, to my predecessor in office, referred to in 
 the contract, not being on file in the Department, I enclose a copy of the 
 rough drtdt which was preserved by the agent, and which is believed by 
 him to be substantially the same as that submitted to Mr. Livingston. 
 
 I also transmit copies of statements of the cost of the edition liy Mr. 
 Sparks, and the estimated cost of the edition then being printed by Mr. 
 Blair, whicli were submited to Mr. Livingston. 
 
 I have the honor to be, sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 JOHN FORSYTH. 
 Hon. F. O. J. Smith, IIo. of Heps. 
 
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 Globe Office, 
 
 Viashlngiou, Dec. 20, 1832. 
 
 Dr. State Department to Francis P. Blair : 
 
 For printing 1,000 copies first volums " Diplomatic Correspondence," at 
 Congress prices, viz : 
 
 For composition, 515 pages, 1,012 ems each, at 07 cents per page $315 05 
 
 For composition 29 pages brevier, 1,710 ems, at ;$1 20' per page 34 SO 
 
 For presswork on 511,000 pages, at 874 cents for every 000 - 792 83 
 For difference in price between the paper (hat Congressional 
 
 document? are printed upon, and the paper used in printing 
 
 Diplomatic Correspondence, viz : 
 
 7 '6 reams at $1 7o per ream - - - - - 133 00 
 
 2 reams at $2 50 per ream - - - - - 5 00 
 
 For binding 976 volumes, at 40 cents eacli, sliccp - - 390 40 
 
 For binding 24 volumes, at 75 cents each, calf - - 18 00 
 
 $1,719 08 
 
 January 1, 1833. Received of Edward Stubbs, agent, one thousand 
 sev^en hundred and nineteen dollars and eight cents, in full for the above 
 account. 
 
 JOHN C. RIVES, 
 For F. P. BLAIR. 
 
 Capitol, Fehni.ary 1, 1833. 
 
 Gentlemen: Will yon be so good as to say what are the number of 
 ems in a page of the Diplomatic Correspondence as now publishing and 
 herewith sent. 
 
 I rnake the number of ems in the Congress page 1,508. 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 MW. ST. CLAIR CLARKE, 
 
 Cleric House Reps. 
 Messrs. Peter Force and Geo. M. Grouard. 
 
 I make the Diplomatic Correspondence 1,012 ems per page. 
 
 Gales and Seaton's Congress documents (small pica) 1,508 ems per page. 
 
 Gales and Seaton's brevier journals 2.500 cms per pafje. 
 
 GEO. M. GROUARD. 
 
 I make the Diplomatic Correspondence contain 1,012 ems per pa2^e,from 
 actual measurement. And the index to the same work to contain 1,710 
 ems per pa2:e. 
 
 PF/FER FORCE. 
 Washington, Feb. 2, 1833. 
 
 We certify that a Congress page of long primer type contains 1,508 ems, 
 and brevier 2,500 cms ; and that the prices paid the public printer are, for 
 
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 composition of the former, $1. and for the latter $1 75 per page. The 
 price for press work, including paper, is S7i cents for every GUOpciges. 
 
 Wo liave caused the " Diplomatic Correspondence," published by Francis 
 P. Blair, to be measured, and find that a page in the body of the work 
 contains 1,012 ems. and the index 1,710 ems per paire. 
 
 WALTER LOWRIE, 
 
 Secretary Senutc. 
 MW. ST. CLAIR CLARKE, 
 
 Clerk House Reps. 
 February 2, 1S33. 
 
 Copy of a rough draft relalned hy the agent. 
 
 The agent of the Department of State, having, in compliance witli the 
 direction of the Secretary, examined the papers presented by Messrs. Force 
 and Clarke, respecting their intended puhhcation of the " Documentary His- 
 tory of the Revolution," finds them as follows : 
 
 1st. The memorial of Messrs. Clarke and Force to Congress, 29th De- 
 cember, 1831. 
 
 2d, A list (marked B, part first,) of documents referred to in the first 
 volume of the journals of Congress to 1789, which are stated not to have 
 been printed, embracing leltersfrom civil and military ofircers. State con- 
 ventions and committees, petitions, (fee. &.c. 
 
 3d. A list marked B, part second, do. second volume, do. do, 
 
 4th. A letter from Clarke and F^'orce to the Secretary, accompanied by a 
 list of the publications already procured by them, in reference to the publi- 
 cation, and his ansM'-er thereto. 
 
 5th. A letter from E. Hazzard to Henry Lanrens, Esq. on the subject 
 of a work then proposed by him, dated ilth .[uly, 1778, which was re- 
 ferred to a committee of Congress, and their report thereon. 
 
 6th. Contract for the publiccition proposed by Messrs. Clarke and Force. 
 
 7th. The act authorizing a contract for the publication. 
 
 He begs leave respectfully to state, that, from these pa])crs it would ap- 
 pear that Messrs. (Jlaike and Force have already incinrcd an expense of 
 '•upwards of six thousand dollars,'" besides which they deem it necessary 
 to examine and make transcripts li'om "the records of the thirteen original 
 States,''" to have copies of tlse papers of the connnittees of correspondence, 
 of safety, of inspection, (fee. in the several States, and of the papers of per- 
 sons acting for the colonies, to be found in private manusciipt collections, 
 and to examine and have copies of ^'- the colonial records of the British Go- 
 vernment,"' ifperniission can be obtained, as well as documents from France 
 if practicable. 
 
 The act authorizing the Secretary to eontrnct lor the publication ]n'o- 
 vidts, -'that the rate of expense shall not exceed the actual cost per volume 
 olthe Diplomatic Correspondence now printing, or heretofore printed under 
 the direction of the Secretary of State." It is^ theretore, necessary to stale 
 the cost of the one, and the probable estimated cost of the other. 
 
 Tiie cost of the publication edited by Mr. Sparks was $2 57^ per volume 
 of 537^ Svo pages, being at the rate per octavo page of 4-j-Vo mills. 
 
 The estimated cost of the publication now in press, on better paper and 
 some extra charge for binding, is $2 20 per vohnne of 5'M pnges, being at 
 the rate per octavo page of 1 ~i\ ^ mills. 
 
[ Rep. No. 849. ] 11 
 
 Messrs. Clarke and Force propose to publish their work on better paper 
 tb.aii the edition by Sparks, and with an index, at the rate of 2 cents per 
 Ibiio page, equal to 5 mills per octavo page. 
 
 Aird they suppose that the ditierence in the price over the latter amounting 
 ^"^ tVo <">f ^ "lill P^n- page is not more than equivalent to the labor of mak- 
 ing the index. 
 
 Indeed the difference in tlie quality of paper (as charged for the present 
 publication.) would amount to fo\o^ a mill per page, being more than tl;e 
 difference in price proposed by them. 
 
 The twelve volumes of the Di])lomatic Correspondence, edited by .T. 
 Sparks, and published under the dn-ection of the Secretary of Suite, con- 
 tains (including all titles and blanks) 0,450 pages, making "an average of 
 537-h pages for each volume. 
 
 The actual cost of publication of (he work amounted to ,'$30.SS] 39 for 
 one thousand copies ; for each copy of 12 volumes ,'j^30 SS ; and for each 
 volume averaged at 537tt pages $2 57-lj- 
 
 EDW'D. STUBBS. 
 
 The Diplomatic Correspondence from 1783 to 17SD will cost, as per 
 statement, as follows, viz : 
 Printing and binding 1,000 copies, 7 volumes each, tlie 
 
 ^'olumes averaging 544 pages each - - ' - $12,003 40 
 
 Clerk hire and stationery already paid for - - - 2,793 41 
 
 Do da ' estimated f )r - - 603 13 
 
 $15,400 00 
 
 Tii8 cost of 1,000 copies, of 7 volumes each, being at the rate 
 
 per copy of ----- - <^15 4.0 
 
 And per volume - - - - - - 2 20 
 
 Able. — In the above calculation for printing and binding, there are in- 
 cluded extra charges for paper of a finer quality than that used in SparksV; 
 edition, and for extra binding, amounting on 1,()00 copies for one volume to 
 $l4l-j-Vo, ■^^'liich would still further reduce the price, if of equal quality, of 
 Sparks' edition, to about $2 06 per volume. 
 
 C. 
 
 Washixotox, Jiaic 4, 1836. 
 
 We desire to obtain correct inilDrmation, for the guidance of Congress, 
 upon the subject of publishing a work of the precise description and cha- 
 racter of the enclosed specimen, it being four pages of a woi'k entitled 
 '• Diplomatic Correspondence."' 
 
 If it be not subjecting you to great inconvenience, will you be good 
 onough to inform us what would be a fair contract price per page of octavo, 
 (we mean such a price as you would be williui]: to accept and bind your- 
 self to fulfil, if you desired, and the offer be made you,) ot such a work, 
 exclusive of the expense of matter and compilation, supposing the v/ork to 
 
12 [ Rep. No. 849. ] 
 
 extend through twenty vohimes, of an average of 800 pages per volume, 
 and to 1500 copies of each volume? And Y;hat would be a fair average 
 reduction or dilference in the cliarge, if any, provided each volume were 
 folio instead of octavo, (or four times the size just specihed,) and of SOU 
 pages each ? We sliould he pleased to receive the items in detail, upon which 
 such an estimate njay be based, according to your best judgment, noting sepa- 
 rately the cost of paper, (of the quality of the specimen here sent,) cost of 
 setting the type, of woriiing the print, &-c. &:c. per page, or per volume, 
 averaged upon a job of the magnitude specified, end having reference, of 
 course, to the improved methods of publication oi printing "appropriate to 
 to such an extent of work. 
 
 The earliest reply you can make is desired. 
 We have the honor lo be. 
 
 With great respect. 
 
 Your obedient servants, 
 C. JOHNSON, 
 FRANCIS O. J. SMITH. 
 
 D. 
 
 Philadei.piiia, June 16, 183G. 
 
 Gentlemen : We have your favor of 4th inst. There are few things 
 v\7e should not do more readily than that you desire, because we are un- 
 willing to interfere with arrangements of other publishers. Desirous, how- 
 ever, to comply with your wishes, as far as possible, we give you the fol- 
 lowing calculation of such a work, sv.j)])osing the copy io he handed to us 
 for jmhlicatioii, and ready for the press : 
 
 Composition. 800 pages, at 50 cents . . . ^448 00 
 
 Paper, 180 reams, at\S3 75 . . . _ 075 00 
 
 binding 1,500, at 40 cents ----- (;00 00 
 
 Corrections, alterations, cV,c. - . . . loo 00 
 
 Additional for index, and for notes, etc. - - - 50 00 
 
 $1,873 00 
 Presswork, GOO tokens, 45 cents ... - 270 00 
 
 #2,143 00 
 
 Upon this, a moderate commission would give $2,400, or $1 67 percopJ^ 
 cxchmve of autliorship or editorship. 
 
 If the book were done in folio, with four times the quantity of matter per 
 page, the cost would be four times, or nearly $6 67 per copy, without edi- 
 forship. 
 
 We arc. vours respcctfullv, 
 
 CAREY, LEA, & CO. 
 Messrs. Cave John. son, 
 F. O. J. Smith. 
 
[ Rep. No. 984. ] 13 
 
 E. 
 
 New York, June, 1S3G. 
 Gentlemen : Your Hivor of the 4th inst. is before iis. In reply we 
 submit the following estimate of the cost of printing the work referred to : 
 
 800 pages, 8vo. 50 sheets, 1,500 copies each, = 175 reams of 
 
 paper at $3 50 .... 
 
 Composition of 800 pa^fes, (1 ,035 ems each,) 828,000, at 50 cts 
 l; Presswork of 1,500, 600 tokens, at 50 cts. - 
 Binding in law sheep, 1,500, at 40 cts. 
 
 Cost of 1,500 copies of each volume 
 
 We would be willing to enter into a contract to print and bind the work 
 referred to, in the m inner the '• Diplomatic Correspondence" is executed, at 
 one dollar and thirty cents per voluiiie. 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servants. 
 
 HARPER & BROTHERS. 
 To Francis O. J. Smith, Esq. and 
 C. Johnson, Esq. 
 
 P. S. The expense of a folio volume of 800 pages, bound in sheep, 
 would be about f 7,744. 
 
 $612 
 
 i. 424 
 
 300 
 
 GOO 
 
 00 
 00 
 00 
 00 
 
 - $1,936 00 
 
 F. 
 
 Boston, June 23, 1836. 
 Gentlemen : Your letter of inquiry concerning the probable expense 
 of printing a work similar in size and form to the Diplomatic Correspon- 
 dence, to contain 800 pages, and extend to 20 volumes, 1,500 copies of each 
 volume, was duly received; and I herewith send you an estimate of the 
 cost of printing a work of that size and character, viz : 
 
 Composition, say 800 pp. Svo. - - - - - $320 00 
 
 Presswork - - - - - - - 244 00 
 
 Paper - - 550 00 
 
 Binding (in sheep) - - - - - - 420 00 
 
 $1,53 4 00 
 
 The above estimate is for a single volume in Svo; if done in folio, the 
 price will be about four times the amount, provided the number of pages 
 are the same as stated in your circular. The estimate which I have given 
 is based upon the best of work and material in every respect. It can be 
 done for less, provided the presswork is done on power presses, and in a 
 cheap style : but the character of the work is such, that it should be done 
 well, and the difference would not probably be more than five or ten cents 
 per volume. 
 
 I should be willing to contract for doing the work at $1 per volume, and 
 give ample security that it should be done to the satisfaction of Congress. 
 I take the liberty of referring you to the hon. Abbott Lawrence, and the 
 
14 [ Rep. No. S49. ] 
 
 hon. C. Cushing, with both of whom I have the honor to be acquainted. 
 They can inform yon of my standing as a pnbhsher, and the character of 
 the books whicli have issued from the press in:ider niy supervision in that 
 capacity. 
 
 Should you desire any further niformalion, whicli it is in my power to 
 give you on the subject, I shall be happy to liear from you. 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Most trulv- your obedient servant, 
 
 CHAS. J. HENDEE, 
 iSuccessvr of Carter, Hendee cji" Ce. 
 To Messrs. F. O. J. Smith, and 
 (J, Johnson. 
 
[ Rep. No. 849. ] 
 
 15 
 
 A A. — xi STATEMENT of the several allowances and accounts, including the specif c items 
 thereof, ■paid from the ccpproprioAion for publishliig the foreign correspondence of the United 
 States to the peace of 118'6.— {Sparks.) 
 
 ' 1830. 
 March 13, 
 
 March 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 April 
 
 April 
 
 I 
 
 April 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 April 
 
 I 
 
 April 
 
 May 
 June 
 June 
 June 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 8: 
 19, 
 
 29, 
 
 7, 
 21, 
 
 June 
 July 
 
 33, 
 22, 
 
 August 
 
 12, 
 
 September 
 
 4, 
 
 September 
 
 18, 
 
 November 
 1831, Jan. 
 Do. 
 
 9, 
 13, 
 
 April 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 ibr 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 for 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 for 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 for 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 lor 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 for 
 
 do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 for 
 
 do. 
 
 Paid M. M. Rankin, for copying 38,000 words in 
 French, at 15 cents p^r 100 words - - - 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, lor 1,000 copies 1st vol. Diploma- 
 tic Correspondence - - . - . 
 Do. do. for 1,000 copies 2d do. do. 
 Do. do. lor 1,0'JO copies 3d do. do. 
 Do. do. for editor's compensation, at S^OO 
 per volume - - - 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for cash paid to J. H. Everett, 
 fur copying diplomauc papers - - - 
 
 do for copying 
 H. S. McKean " do. 
 Josiah Lormg lor paper 
 M. Bo wen, forcopjang 
 M. H. Prescott, do. 
 do. do. 
 
 John Gray, jr. do. 
 
 Paid Joseph Stevenson, for hauling and labor on G 
 
 loads of books from Department to Capitol 
 Paid J. J. Lehmanowsky, for copying 0,750 words in 
 French and Spanish, at 15 cents per 100 words 
 Do. do. for 3,500 words of English, at 10 cis. do. 
 
 Paid John Kean Dayton, for copying French corre- 
 spondence, 10,500 words, at 15 cents per 100 words 
 Do. do. for Spanish do. 050 words, at do. 
 Do. do. for English do. 3,085 do. atlOcts. 
 
 Paid James C. Cummings, for copying 14,800 words 
 
 French, at 15 cents per 100 words - - - 
 
 Do. do. for 7,800 words English at 10 cts. pr. do. 
 
 Paid J.J. Lehmanowsky for copymg 2,900 words of 
 French, at 15 cents per 100 words - 
 Do. do. for4,307wordsEngli3h, at lOcts.pr. do. 
 
 Paid Joseph Wimsatt, for drayage on 3 boxes 
 Do. do. for freight - - . 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for 1,000 copies 4th vol. Diplo- 
 matic Correspondence of the American Revolu- 
 tion, including the editor's compensation - 
 
 Paid .Tared Sparks, for 1,000 copies 5th vol. Diplo- 
 matic Correspondence of the American Revolu- 
 tion, including the editor's compensation - 
 
 Paul Wm. H. Prentiss, for extra expense moving 
 Mr. Sparks's works to the Capilol - - ". 
 
 Paid J. Wimsati, for drayage - - - 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for 1,000 copies Gth vol. Diplo- 
 matic Correspondence - - - ' • 
 
 Paid W. H. Prentiss, for hack hire to Capitol with 
 Sparks's works . - . - . 
 
 Paid J. Wimsatt, for drayage on 4 boxes to Depart- 
 ment of State, and thence to the Capilol - 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for 1,000 copies 7lh vol. Diplo- 
 matic Correspondence, together with compensation 
 for editing the same ... 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for 1,000 copies 8th vol. do. do. do. 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for do. 9th vol. do. do. do. 
 
 Do. do. for copying paid for by him 
 
 Paid Jared Sparks, for editing, and 1,000 copies of 
 the 10th, 11th, and 12th vols. Diplomatic Correspon- 
 dence --.-.. 
 
 S2.125 00 
 2,125 00 
 2,125 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 S'28 04 
 12 00 
 27 98 
 15 50 
 9 28 
 15 00 
 
 109 79 
 10 71 
 
 no 12 
 
 3 50 
 
 ^15 75 
 
 97 
 
 3 OS 
 
 S-22 20 
 7 80 
 
 S4 35 
 4 30 
 
 51^2 00 
 6 56 
 
 ^■2,525 00 
 205 21 
 
 S57 00 
 
 7,575 00 
 
 228 20 
 G 50 
 
 13 62 
 
 19 m 
 
 30 €0 
 
 8 65 
 
 8 56 
 
 2,525 00 
 
 2, £23 00 
 
 25 
 2 00 
 
 2,525 00 
 
 50 
 
 1 00 
 
 2,525 00 
 2,525 00 
 
 2,730 21 
 
 7,575 00 
 30,881 39 
 
16 
 
 [ Rep. No. 849. ] 
 
 ■Q B. A STATEMENT of the several allowavccs and accounts, including the specific items 
 
 thereof, paid from tlie ajypropriation for publishing the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United 
 Slates, from the peace oj 17^3, to the Ath of March, 1789. 
 
 1832. 
 
 August 
 
 August 31, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 September 8, 
 
 Do. 
 
 September 29, 
 Do. 
 
 October 1, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 November 1, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 November 2, 
 November 19, 
 
 Do. 
 
 December 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 December 
 Do. 
 
 1833. 
 
 January 
 
 31, 
 
 Paid W. A. Davis lor siationerj^, viz: 
 
 2 ream.'-- lejiU lined i'oolscap - . . 
 
 i quire blotting paper, 25 cts., 2 ivory pounce 
 boxes, 4t 3 - - - - - 
 
 1 bottle black ink, 50 cts., 4 penknives, S5 
 
 1 doz. red tape, SI 75, IsetPerryan pens, fl 50 
 100 quills No. 70, S4, 1 doz. lead pencils, 75 cts. 
 
 2 round rulers, $1, 1 wafer box, 25 cts. 
 
 i lb. wafers, 50 cts., rubber, 50 els., pounce, 50 c. 
 
 Do. Win. A. Weaver, for 1 1-10 month's services, 
 at S'l, 200 per annum . . . - 
 
 Do. Eu^-ene Van Ness, for I do. do. - 
 
 Do. J. M. Duncanson, 11 day's, do. do. - 
 
 Do. W. H. Watson, for 29 days' services, at $600 
 per annum ..... 
 
 Do. W. A. Davis, for 4 rei i s feint lined cap, at 
 
 jtG 50 - 
 Do. do. for 100 quills No. 70 
 
 Do. W. A. Davis, for 1 package Perryan pens 
 Do. do. for 4 quires letter paper, ft. lined 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's service - 
 
 Do. J. M. Duncan, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. W. II. Watson, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. E. Van Ness, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for copying 51,000 words by 
 son Charles . - - - - 
 
 Do. J. M. Duncan, for 1 month's service - 
 
 Do. W. H. Watson, for 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. Eiig. Van Ness, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. V/. A. Davis, lor 100 qiills, No. 70, %A, 100 yel- 
 low quills, $2 - 
 
 Do. do. for 200 quills, No. 70, ijfS, 1 set 
 
 Perryian pens, ^1 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's services - 
 Do. J. M. Duncan, for 1 do. 
 
 Do. E. Van Ness, for 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. W. H, Watson, for 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for copying, by son Charles, 
 30,400 words . 1 - . - 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for one month's service 
 Do. Benj. C. Vail, for translating from 26th Novem- 
 ber to date, 30 days .... 
 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for printing 1,000 copies 1st 
 vol. Diplomatic Correspon- 
 cnce, viz: 
 
 composition'" i 515 pages at 
 67 cts. per I'l^gG 
 
 composition on 29 pages bre- 
 vier, at SI 20 per page 
 
 presswork on 514,000 pages 
 at 87i cts. for every 600 pp. 
 
 binding 976 copies at 40 cents 
 do. 24 copies in calf, at 
 75 cents ... 
 
 Difference in the paper and 
 that used in the Congres- 
 sional documents - 
 
 S13 00 
 
 3 25 
 
 5 50 
 
 3 25 
 
 4 75 
 
 1 25 
 
 1 50 
 
 26 00 
 4 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 9 00 
 
[ Rep. No. 849. J 
 B B.— STATEMENT— Continued. 
 
 17 
 
 January 1, 
 
 Do. 
 
 January '2, 
 
 January 12, 
 
 January IG, 
 
 January 21, 
 
 January 25, 
 
 1, 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 February 2, 
 
 February 10, 
 DJ. 
 Do. 
 
 1, 
 
 II, 
 25, 
 
 Paid J. M. Duncan, for 1 month's service - 
 
 Do. Eug. Van Ness, lor 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. W. H. Watson, for 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. J. M. Duncan, for II days' service to 11th inst. 
 
 inclusive ------ 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for copying 74,831 words by 
 
 son Charles . - - . . 
 
 Do. W. H. Watson, for 11 days' service to 11th inst. 
 
 inclusive ------ 
 
 Do. W. A Davis, for ivory folder, 75 cents, 3 rras. 
 foolscap, lined, $13 - - - - 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's service 
 (■•o. Eug. Van Ness, for 1 do. - - 
 
 Do. W."H. Watson, for copying 56,766 words, at 10 
 cents per 100 - . - - - 
 
 Do. J. M. Duncan, for copying 32,406 words, at 10 
 cents per 100 - - . - - 
 
 Do. B. C. Vail, for translating from January 1, to 
 February 1,27 days, S3 - - - . 
 
 Do. F. P. Slair, for printing l,fO0 copies 2d vol. 
 DiplomaticC irrespc ndence: 
 composition on 501 pages, 
 1,012 ems, at 67 cts per page 
 composition on 36 pages bre- 
 vier, l,710ems, at ftl 20 p. p. 
 press-work on 540,000, at 87i 
 
 cents for every 600 pp. 
 Difference in the price be- 
 tween the paper that the 
 Congressional documents 
 are printed upon, and the pa- 
 per used in the Diplomatic 
 Correspondence, viz: 
 76 reams at SI 75 per ream - 
 2 reams at $2 50 per ream - 
 binding 976 volumes, at 40 cts. 
 in sheep - - - 
 
 binding 24 volumes at 75 cts. 
 in calf - - - 
 
 Do. H. Mcxlrdle, for 200 EBB quills, yellow 
 
 Do. do. for 200 BBB quills, extra 
 
 Do. do. for 2 penknives - - - 
 
 D ). W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's service - 
 Do. Eug. Van Ness, for I do. 
 
 Do. B. C. Vail, for translating 11 daj^s 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for copying 46,482 words by 
 son Charles, at 10 cents - - - - 
 
 Do. Eug. Van Ness, for services from Ist lo 11th of 
 
 March, at Sl,"^t) per inum 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for pr^uting 1,000 copies Diplo- 
 matic Correspondence, 3d 
 vol. at Congressional prices, 
 536 pages, viz; 
 composition on 497 pages, 
 1,012 ems each, at 67 cts. p. p. 
 composition on 39 pages bre- 
 vier, l,710emseach,atSl 20 
 per page - - - 
 
 presswork on 536,000 pages, 
 at 81k cents for every 600 - 
 Difference in the price of the 
 paper that theCongressional 
 documents are printed upon , 
 and that used in the Diplo- 
 ma'ic Correspondence : 
 o 
 
 S337 68 
 43 20 
 
 787 50 
 
 332 99 
 
 46 80 
 
 781 66 
 
 SlOO 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 36 65 
 
 74 82 
 
 18 33 
 
 13 75 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 
 56 76 
 
 32 40 
 
 81 00 
 
 1,714 78 
 
 14 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 
 33 00 
 
 46 48 
 33 33 
 
18 
 
 [ Rep. No. 819. ] 
 B B.— STATEMENT— Continued. 
 
 March 
 
 April 
 May 
 May 
 
 June 
 
 Dc. 
 
 June 
 
 1, 
 
 23, 
 
 2G, 
 
 July 
 July 
 
 1, 
 15, 
 
 July 
 
 1833. 
 August 1 , 
 September 2, 
 
 Paul F. P. Blair, viz: 
 
 75A reams at $1 US, S132 1-2, 
 
 2 reams at ^2 50, :ft5 
 binding !l7li volumes, al 40cts. 
 binding24 vols. al75 els. in c"ll' 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's services 
 
 Do. do. for 1 do. do. 
 
 Do. do. for copying 10,5ti0 words by 
 
 son Charles 
 Do. do. for copvinsj by Mrs. "Weaver, 
 
 1G,7U0 words 
 Do. do. for 1 months' services - 
 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for printing, &c. 4th vol. 1.000 
 copies : 
 composition, 504 pages, 1,012 
 
 ems each, at 61 cents 
 composition , 3-J pages brevier, 
 1,710 ems each, at $1 20 - 
 presswork, 536,000 pages, at 
 
 87i cents for every (iOO 
 Difierence in price of paper 
 in Congressional documents, 
 and that used in this work, 
 • viz : 
 75 59-108 rms. at $1 75pr. rm. 
 2 do. at S2 50 do. 
 
 binding 970 vols, at 40 cents - 
 do. 24 do. calf, at 75 cts. 
 
 Do. "W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's services - 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for printing 1,000 copies 5ch 
 vol. Diplomatic Correspon- 
 dence : 
 
 composition, 492 pages, 1,012 
 ems each, at 07 cents 
 
 composition, 24 pages brevier, 
 1,710 ems each, at $1 20 - 
 
 press-work, 516,000 pages, at 
 87i cents for every (JOO 
 
 Difference in price between 
 the paper that the Congres- 
 sional documents are print- 
 ed on, and the paper used 
 in this work, viz: 
 
 im rms. at m 75, ^123 08 ; 
 2 rms. at S'2 50, $5 
 
 binding 97(3 vols, at 40 cents - 
 do. 24 do. calf, at 75 cts. 
 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for printing 1,000 copies 6th 
 vol. Diplomatic Correspon- 
 dence, 552 pages: 
 
 composition, 520 pages, 1,012 
 ems each, at 67 cents 
 
 composition, 32 pages brevier, 
 1,710 ems each, at SI 20 - 
 
 pre.sswork, 552,000 pages, at 
 87.i cents for every 600 
 
 Difierence in the price of pa- 
 per, viz : 
 
 761 rms. at $1 75 per rm. 
 
 2 do. atS2 50 do. 
 
 binding 976 vols, at 40 cents - 
 do. 24 do. calf, at 75 cts. 
 
 Do. W. A. Weaver, for 1 month's services - 
 
 Do. do. for 1 do. - - 
 
 f!il37 12 
 
 390 40 
 
 IS 00 
 
 ^337 G8 
 
 38 40 
 
 781 66 
 
 132 21 
 
 5 00 
 
 390 40 
 
 18 00 
 
 SI, 706 97 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 
 10 ryC, 
 k; 70 
 
 100 00 
 
 1*329 04 
 
 23 80 
 
 752 50 
 
 128 08 
 
 390 40 
 
 IS 00 
 
 S348 40 
 
 38 40 
 
 805 00 
 
 134 31 
 
 5 00 
 390 40 
 
 18 00 
 
 1,703 35 
 100 00 
 
 1,617 42 
 
 1,739 51 
 IOO 00 
 100 00 
 
[ Rep. No. 849. ] 
 B B.— STATEMENT— Continued. 
 
 19 
 
 October 1, 
 
 October 31, 
 
 December 2, 
 
 December 31, 
 
 1834. 
 February 1 , 
 April 14, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Anril 
 
 in, 
 
 JlllV 
 
 23, 
 
 Paid W. A. Weaver, for 1 month'.s service 
 Do. di). t'n- 1 do. 
 
 Do. do. lor I do. 
 
 Do. do. lor 1 do. 
 
 Do. do. for 1 do. 
 
 Do. do. for service from 1st Feb. to 
 
 date inclusive 
 
 Do. do. for copying, by son Ciiarler-, 
 
 0,300 words 
 
 Do. F. F. Fdair, for binding 1)7(! vols, of 7ih vol. 
 Diplomatic Correspondence 
 at 40cts.,24 incalf,at 75 cts. 
 
 Pay'nt onaccount of the above. 
 Leaving a balance due 
 him of ^03 15 - 
 Do. F. P. Blair, for printing 1,000 copies 7lh vol. 
 542 pages in the vol. a: Con- 
 gressional prices : 
 
 composition, 500 pages, at G7 
 cents per page 
 
 composition, 12 pages French, 
 at 07 cents per page 
 
 composition, 30 pages brevier, 
 at SI 20 per page - 
 
 alterations from copy in Du- 
 mas' Correspondence 
 
 overrunning 4 last signatures 
 for the purpose of inserting 
 report of John Jay 
 
 presswork and paper on 
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