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To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 November 1804

From Albert Gallatin

Friday 16. Nov. 1804

Dear Sir

Will you have the goodness to read the enclosed intended report, and communicate your opinions thereon.

With sincere respect Your obedt. Servt.

Albert Gallatin

RC (DLC); addressed: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 16 Nov. and “treasury report” and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found, but see below.

Gallatin likely sent TJ a draft report on the necessary expenditures for the next fiscal year. The final report was introduced to Congress on 19 Nov. (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834-56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , 14:691; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 5:17; Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Report and Estimates of the Appropriations Which Appear to Be Necessary for the Service of the Year 1805 [Washington, D.C., 1804]; Gallatin to TJ, 1 Nov.).

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