1From Thomas Jefferson to John Cleves Symmes, 4 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 17. has been duly recieved and laid before the President. He does not concieve that the constitution has given him any controul over the proceedings of the Judges, and therefore that his permission or refusal of absence from your district would be merely nugatory.—In the report which I made to the President on the subject of the public lands, and which he laid before the...