April, 1842, $3000 ; and on the 13th of April, 1843, $5000. By the Comptroller's books, it appears that Mr. Brodhead has furnished accounts and vouchers for $12,014.23, including his compensation to July 7th, 1844, leaving a balance in his favor, to that date, of $14.23. " It appears, from an abstract of the Agent's accounts, that the Holland documents, exclusive of binding, cost $ 703 13 The Paris documents, 904 80 The London do., 4,078 01

$5,685 94 Salary of the Agent, two years eleven months and ten days, at $2000 per annum, $5,888 87 Traveling expenses, 439 42

$12,014 23

" It also appears, from the account, that there remains due to the Agent the sum of $1390.98, including salary, expenses of binding the documents, &c., from the 14th of August, 1844, to the 12th of February last. The committee have examined this account, with the vouchers, and recommend that it be paid ; and ask leave to introduce the accompanying bill."

The bill reported by the select committee having been passed into a law on the 13th of May, 1845, the Agent's accounts were duly settled, and his duty was completed. The documents thus collected by Mr. Brodhead remained for several years in the condition in which they had been deposited in the Secretary's office, aflfording light and

aid to historical inquirers, not only of this but of other States. The " Paris Documents"

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xlii GENERAL INTRODUCTION. "were found to be of special interest to the literary investigators of Canada and the northwestern States, while many of the papers procured in England contained new and important facts illustrating the general history of the Union. The " Holland