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Page 11 dent's career by violence, and the immediate introduction to the office of his successor, without commotion, and the continuance of each department and office of the government without any infringement upon the usual order and routine, it may be regarded as under God the last, highest test of the sufficiency of our Republican form of institutions for any and all emergencies.

Discourse the Day After the Reception of the Tidings of the Assassination of President Lincoln 1865

I herewith transmit to you two sheets containing the drawing of the buildings proposed to connect the Presi - dent's house with the public offices on each side.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

With respect to the first it is presumed that all the lots about the congress house, the President's House, the public gardens and on the street leading from the Congress House to the Presi - dent's house will be infinitely more valuable when the public improvements are made, and therefore if reserved until that period must considerably increase the funds.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

Half this Sum will finish rounding the Road to Rock Creek Bridge from the Presi - dent's House, including the cut through the Hill.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

The sum of three thousand dollars, appropriated to the use of the roads, has been expended in widening the carriage-way of the Pennsylvania avenue, in substituting permanent for temporary drains, in general repairs and improvements, and principally in making a permanent road south of the Presi - dent's square.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

Le Mair has no inventory of the furniture of the Presi - dent's house, but he informs me that Mr Claxton's is perfect excepting as to some articles of Plate made at Richmond.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

Several of the drains on the Pennsylvania avenue still require to be more permanently built; and a large perma - nent sewer is required across the new road opposite to the Presi - dent's house, without which that road, now the proper and permanent means of reaching the offices from the Capitol, will never be passable in winter.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

He dissuades them from making the first sales in the immediate vicinity of the Presi - dent's House and Capitol, as that property would increase in value by the erection of the public buildings, and advises them to sell between the President's House and Georgetown, and in

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797

Dollars per lot be sufficient to secure the propor - tion of this loan not yet reimbursed, of which lots, two fifths shall be South of an East & West line drawn through the Presi - dent's house, & three fifths North of that line, which said re - served lots shall be a security for the said principal not yet re - imbursed & all arrears of interest.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797