To the Senate of the United States.
During the last recess of the Senate the following commissions have issued in the naval service. as these will expire at the end of the present session, the same persons are now nominated for re-appointment; to wit.
| Stephen Decatur jr. of Pensylva. to be a Captain in the Navy. |
| Charles Stewart of Pensylva. |
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to be Masters Commandant in the Navy. |
| Isaac Hull of Massachusets |
| Andrew Sterrett of Maryland |
| John Shaw of Pensylvania |
| Isaac Chauncey of New York |
| John Smith of South Carolina |
| Richard Somers of N. Jersey. |
| George Cox of Maryland |
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| John H. Dent of Maryland to be a Lieutenant Commandant in the Navy |
| Starling Archer of Virginia |
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to be Surgeons in the Navy. |
| Nathaniel T. Weems of Virginia. |
| John Ridgely of Maryland. |
| William Rogers of Maryland |
| James Dodge of New York |
| Larkin Griffin of Maryland |
| Thomas Babbit of Massachusets |
Th: Jefferson
Nov. 9. 1804.
RC (DNA: RG 46, EPEN, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); endorsed by Senate clerks, who also added notations in margin. PoC (DLC); TJ placed a check mark alongside each name.
On 12 Nov., William A. Burwell delivered TJ’s message to the Senate, where it was ordered to lie for consideration. The Senate approved the officers on 20 Nov. and the surgeons on 26 Nov. (JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:472-5).
