At present, therefore,
I am not able to say more, than that the judges of the Supreme Court
of the United States will receive Mr. Pagan's application for a writ of
error to revise the judgment given against him by the inferior court,
and that there can be no doubt they will do on that application what
shall be right.
I have the honor to be, with the highest esteem, your most obedient and
most humble servant.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER XCVII.--TO MESSRS. JOHNSON, CARROL, AND STEWART, March 6, 1792
TO MESSRS. JOHNSON, CARROL, AND STEWART.
Philadelphia, March 6, 1792,
Gentlemen,
It having been found impracticable to employ Major L'Enfant about the
federal city, in that degree of subordination which was lawful and
proper, he has been notified that his services are at an end. It is now
proper that he should receive the reward of his past services; and the
wish that he should have no just cause of discontent, suggests that it
should be liberal. The President thinks of two thousand five hundred, or
three thousand dollars, but leaves the determination to you. Ellicot is
to go on, the week after, the next, to finish laying off the plan on
the ground, and surveying and platting the district. I have remonstrated
with him on the excess of five dollars a day and his expenses, and he
has proposed striking off the latter; but this also is left to you, and
to make the allowance retrospective.
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