Charges for Rent of Rooms in Warehouse for Deposit of Public Stores
Document 1800Payment for rent for rooms in warehouses for the deposit of public stores.
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The United States.
To William West Dr.
1798
Dec. 31 For Rent of the following rooms in Warehouse, for the
deposite of Public Stores.
Two Store rooms on the first floor, and Loft, from
the 23d December 1798, to the 31st December 1799,
is 12 Months and 8 days, at £90 per annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.19.5
One Store room on the first floor, from the 13.th May
to the 31. December, 1799, is 7 Months &18 days, at
£26, per annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.13.0
One Store room on the first floor, from the 30. Augt
to the 31. December, 1799, is 4 Months, at £20, per
annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13.4
One Store room No 8, from the 13. May, to the 13th
July 1799, is 2 Months &12 days, at which time it
ceased to be occupied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.12.0
Two Store rooms No 6, on the first and second floor,
from the 20th May, to the 31st December, 1799, is
7 Months &10 days, at £35, per annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . } 21.7.6
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One Store room No 11, from the 25.th July, to the
31.st December, 1799, is 5 Months &5 days, at
£27 per annum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.12.4
£& £ 117.17.7
Equal to Dollrs 394.34
I Certify that the above mentioned Store rooms have been
in the occupancy of the United States, War Department,
agreeably to the above statement.
J. Harris
Recd. Philada. February 25. 1800 from John
Wilkins Jr. Quarter Master General Pr. Pat. Miller
Agt. Three Hundred and Ninety Four dollars
and thirty four Cents in full the within
Acct Having Signed Duplicates
$394 34/100
William West
Note: Why this account is introduced by Mr. Miller [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] to a kind of [undecipherable] have always [undecipherable]
with the Superintendant [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] now —
By direction of the Secretary of War Mr. Miller took several additional
Store of Mr. West — I attended to fix the Rent and this account
was stated under my agreement and inspection and is
perfectly right — The Quarter Master must pay the Rent of
these Stores while they continue to be occupied for the Public —
Samuel Hodgdon
[Voucher of the Rent &c &c
of the Wm. West —
No. 25(?)
William West]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Payment for rent for rooms in warehouses for the deposit of public stores.
Date
02/25/1800
Document number
1800022521001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William West
William Simmons
Harris
John Wilkins Jr
James Miller
Samuel Hodgdon
Secretary of War
Notable items
rent
rooms
warehouse
public stores
charges

