Maryland State House
The Second Dome, 1784-1787

Footnotes

1. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland General Assembly, House of Delegates Collection) MSA SC 2734-2 Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly 1784, f. 85.

2. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland Gazette Collection) MSA SC 2731 Maryland Gazette, February 24, 1785.

3. MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES (Miscellaneous) MSA T68.

4. Winifred and Douglas Gordon. "The Dome of the Annapolis State House," The Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol LXVII, 1972, p. 297.

5. W.H. Brown, et al. The Archives of Maryland. Vol XXXVIII, p. 25.

6. "A Description of the State-House in Annapolis, the Capitol of Maryland," The Columbian Magazine, February 1789. p. 81.

7. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Auditor General Collection) MSA SC 2742-1 Auditor General Journal Book, folio 43.

8. Morris L. Radoff, Buildings of the State of Maryland at Annapolis, publication no. 9, Annapolis, MD: The Hall of Records Commission, 1954. p. 94.

9. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland Gazette Collection) MSA SC 2731 Maryland Gazette, November 1, 1787.

10. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland General Assembly, House of Delegates Collection) MSA SC 2734-2 Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly 1786, ff. 75-6.

11. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (William T. Claude Collection) January 19, 1829. Petition, Mary S. Magee, daughter of Joseph Clark to the General Assembly for financial aid. MSA SC 444.

Clark's daughter Mary Magee also failed to get the additional funds from the legislature. As the only surviving orphan of Clark, she petitioned the Senate in 1828 for the currency owed her father by the State of Maryland. Mrs. Magee claimed that the State owed him a balance of L17,000 when he left Maryland in 1794. She added that in 1797 her father substantiated his claim against the state. Payment was barred by Attorney General Luther Martin on grounds of the act of limitation; Clark had not attempted to claim his debt soon enough. Mrs. Magee said that Clark charged Martin with barring payment on account of personal emnity rather judicial merit. She maintained that a newspaper war was waged between the two men in the winter of 1797 but there is no record of a newspaper war in the Maryland Gazette or Baltimore Federal Advertiser. Furthermore, this debt is not listed in Clark's probate records.

12. Morris L. Radoff, The State House at Annapolis Annapolis, MD: The Hall of Records Commission, 1972, p. 20.

13. Clark's account with the Auditor General concludes October 28, 1788 with balance due.


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