Augmentation of My Salary: Page #2 Original title: zqz/ZQZ22002.jpg Protection: Open to all Expiration: Never Status: In progress Mark this revision as complete Cancel Augmentation of My Salary: Page #2 Go full screenExit full screen Layout Reset Philadelphia 6th October, 1800 Sir, I beg leave to address you on the follow subject. Three years and upwards have elapsed since you were pleased to appoint me Book-Keeper in your Office, during which time the business has been increasing to the present day; all my care, diligence, and efforts are exercised to prevent the Books from getting into a state of arrearage. Permit me therefore Sir, to solicit an augmentation of my salary and in making the request I might contrast my duties with those in other Offices perhaps with advantage, and I must observe that many whose duties are not more arduous or whose industry and care are not more awakeneed than mine are allowed one thousand Dollars payment; while I receive but seven hundred. I conscientiously declare that such are my unavoidable expenditures that [indeciperable][indeciperable][indeciperable][indeciperable][indeciperable]without resorting to the meanest economy - that I should spend the best years of my life for a bare subsistence, is, you must allow a hard case. Besides