3. It was the practice of the Department, from the time I took charge of the pay office, and before, to make transfers of pay, accruing on contracts, in accordance with the directions of contractors, expressed in writing and verbally.

4. Under the contract of Reeside and Moore to carry the mail from Hagerstown to Wheeling from 1st January, 1824, to 31st December, 1827, the pay was divided, from commencement of contract, among the following persons: Joseph Boyd, James Reeside, Jacob Sides, and Daniel Moore.

Under the contract of Stockton and Reeside to carry the mail from Baltimore to Wheeling from 1st January, 1828, to 31st December, 1831, the pay was divided among the following persons: R. C. Stockton, Jos. Boyd, James Reeside, L. W. Stockton, and Moore and Sims.

Uunder contracts for various routes in Pennsylvania and Maryland from 1st January, 1832, to 31st December, 1835, made by Reeside, Peters, and others, the pay was divided under verbal directions, to suit parties to the contracts, embracing some not named therein.

5. The circumstances under which the pay for the route from Augaust to Savannah was entered for the contract in Mr. Fuller's name as paya. ble to Reeside are not recollected; but the impression on my mind is, that it was made in conformity to written directions, which were burnt in the conflagration of the Post Office building.

6. No other case than Mr. Fuller's presents itself to my recollection of a claim made after the expiration of a contract in opposition to an entry of transfer on the pay list.

7. The pay on the original contract was $4,000 per annum. From 21st February, 1834, an allowance of $4,000 per annum, additional, was made for carrying the mail daily, instead of three times a week. The first application for pay on this route, recollected to have been made by Mr. Fuller, was some time in theyear 1836.

8. Mr. Fuller was spoken of and referred to by Mr. Reeside for two or three years previous to the contract of Fuller as his agent in Georgia for the management of his contracts; but I do not recollect of his having been mentioned as a partner of his, until the reference to the name of the firm of Reeside & Fuller on the bond. At the recent trial at Philadelphia, a letter addressed to the Department, signed James Reeside, was produced in evidence, and objected to by his counsel as not being his signature which Mr. Reeside admitted to be correct, it being the writing of Mr. Fuller, who was authorized to sign his name.

9. No money was paid to Mr. Fuller by the Department, other than three small drafts on postmasters on route No. 2,358, amounting to fortyfive dollars, which were forwarded to him for collection at the instance of Mr. Reeside; no draft of Mr. Reeside, accepted by the Department, is known to have passed into the hands of Mr. Fuller, excepting one dated April 18, 1835, to order, payable January 1, 1836, for $5,000, which was presented for payment endorsed as follows: "Jas. Reeside-[Reeside, Fuller, Saltmarsh & co.-John McLean-William Fuller]-pay to H. Baldwin, Esq., cashier, or order, [Daniel S. Rowe, cashier.] Augusta, Ga.—Pay G. Thomas, Esq., cashier. [H. Baldwin, cashier."]

The names in brackets are erasures, as noted in a copy of the draft on record in this office.

E. WHITTLESEY, Auditor.

Very respectfully,

JOHN SUTER, Principal Pay Clerk.

2d Session.

JAMES D. DOTY.

LETTER

FROM

THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

TRANSMITTING

The information required by the resolution of the House of Representa tives, of the 14th instant, respecting payments made to James D. Doly out of the appropriations for public buildings in the Territory of Wiskonsan.

MAY 28, 1842.

Referred to the Committee on Territories.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1842.

SIR: In obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 14th instant, I have the honor to transmit the accompanying documents, numbered from 1 to 20, giving the information required by the resolution in relation to the payments made to James D. Doty out of the appropriations for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Wis

konsan.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. JOHN WHITE,

W. FORWARD, Secretary of the Treasury.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

No. 1.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 7, 1837. SIR By the 13th section of the "act establishing the Territorial Government of Wiskonsan," the sum of twenty thousand dollars is appropriated, to be applied, by the Governor and Legislative Assembly, to defray the expenses of erecting public buildings at the seat of government. I have the honor to submit to you a copy of the act of the Territorial Assembly providing for the erection of those buildings, and also a copy of the bond given to the Territory by James D. Dety, as the treasurer of the commissioners, which officer is authorized by said act to receive the amount of the above-mentioned appropriation. I beg leave to recommend that an

advance be authorized to be made to Mr. Doty of the amount of the appropriation.

I am, very respectfully, &c.,

LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury.

To the PRESIDENT of the United States. -Authorized-.M. V. B.

No. 2.

An act to establish the seat of government of the Territory of Wiskonsan, and to provide for the erection of public buildings.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wiskonsan, That the seat of government of the Ter ritory of Wiskonsan be, and the same is hereby, located and established at the town of Madison, between the third and fourth of the four lakes, on the corner of sections thirteen, fourteen, twenty-three, and twentyfour, in township seven north, of range nine east.

Section 2. Be it enacted, That, until the public buildings at the said town of Madison are completed, that is to say, until the 4th day of March, in the year 1839, the sessions of the Legislative Assembly of Wiskonsan Territory shall be held at the town of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines, provided the public buildings are not sooner completed.

Section 3. Be it enacted, That there shall be three commissioners, elected by joint ballot of the Council and House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to cause the necessary public buildings to be erected at the town of Madison, for the accommodation of the Assembly and other officers of the Territorial Government. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall agree upon a plan of said buildings, and shall issue proposals, giving due notice thereof, and contract for the erection of said buildings without delay. They shall elect one of their number treasurer, whose duty it shall be to draw from the Treasury of the United States such sum or sums of money as have been, or may hereafter be, appropri ated by Congress towards the erection of the public buildings for the use of said Territory, and shall pay the same, upon the orders of a majority of the said commissioners, to such persons as they may direct. The sand treasurer, before he receives the said sums, shall execute a bond to the said Territory, with two or more sureties, to be approved of by the secre tary of the Territory, in the penal sum of forty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful execution of the duties of his office, and that he will annu ally render to the Legislative Assembly a true account of all moneys re ceived and paid out by him. And they shall agree upon one of their num ber to be acting commissioner, whose duty it shall be to superintend daily, in person, the building of said buildings; and the said acting commissioner shall have power, at all times, when he may think proper, to call the board of commissioners together, for the purpose of transacting any business of this subject; and said board shall, in all contracts, reserve the privilege suspend ng any contract made by them, for the purpose of carrying int effect the object above named, until the matter in dispute shall be settled, if any there shou'd be. The said commissioners shall receive such com pensation for their services as may hereafter be allowed by law.

Section 4. Be it enacted, That this act be in force from and after the

Know all men by these presents, that we, James Duane Doty, James Morrisou, and John B.Teny, are held and firmly bound to the Territory of Wiskonsan in the penal sum of forty thousand dollars, to the payment of which sum, well and truly to be made, we do bind ourselves, and our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty

seven.

The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the said James Duane Doty has been duly elected treasurer, pursuant to the third section of the act, entitled "An act to establish the seat of government of the Territory of Wiskonsan, and to provide for the erection of publie buildings," approved December 3, 1836: now, if the said James Duane Doty shall and does faithfully execute the duties of his said office of treasurer, and annually render to the Legislative Assembly a true account of all moneys received and paid out by him, then the above obligation shall be null and void, and of none effect; otherwise, be and remain in full force and virtue.

The aforesaid bond and security are approved of by me, in pursuance of the authority vested in me by the 3d section of the act establishing the eat of government of Wiskonsan Territory, approved December 3, 1836. JOHN S. HORNER,

Secretary of the Territory of Wiskonsan.

I certify that the foregoing bond is a true copy of the original filed in ny office. And I furthermore certify, that James Duane Doty, Esq. . F. O'Neill, and Augustus H. Bird, were elected commissioners to superntend the erection of public buildings at the seat of government of Wis consan Territory, as appears by the proceedings of the Legislative As embly.

[L. S.]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the "great seal of the Territory," at Belmont, this twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

JOHN S. HORNER, Secretary of Wiskonsan Territory

No. 4.

An the margin: Warrant.-Treasury.-Voucher 7.-No. 4,843.-Appropriation.-Public buildings and Library for Wiskonsan Territory.—$20,000.]

TREASURY Department.

To William Selden, Treasurer of the United States, greeting:

Pay to James D. Doty, treasurer of the board of commissioners, for erecting public buildings in Wiskonsan Territory, or order, out of the ap ropriation named in the margin, twenty thousand dollars, on account a his expenditures, and for which sum he is to be charged and held a countable. For so doing, this shall be your warrant.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Treasury, this seventh day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and of independence the sixty-first.

Countersigned:

LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury.

GEO. WOLF.
Comptroller

MARCH 9.

The receiver of public moneys at Green Bay will pay the above waant agreeably fo its tenor.

on receiver

J. D. DOTY

Received payment of the above warrant by draft, No. rablic moneys, Green Bay.

ASTOR, April 6, 1837.

Ct. warrant No .2,487.-March 31, 1837.

No. 5.

ASTOR, GREEN BAY, August 1, 1858. SIR: By an act passed at the last session of Congress, $20,000 are appriated for the completion of the public buildings at Madison, the seat government of Wiskonsan, and to be expended by the commissioners water and according to the act passed by the Legislative Assembly on the

December, 1836, entitled "An act to establish the seat of gover ent of the Territory of Wiskonsan, and to provide for the erection & public buildings."

De

A copy of this act, together with my bond, was forwarded to your artment in 1836, and upon them I drew the $20,000 which have beer pended. By the 3d section of that act, it is made the duty of the trea to draw from the Treasury of the United States such sum or S money as have been, or may hereafter be, appropriated by Congress For this object. I do therefore make application for the above sum

$20,000.

The contract has been let for the completion of the buildings, and the tractor is entitled to a payment according to the contract.

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