31 December 1810. Communicates a supplemental report from the secretary of state with information received since his message of 28 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (5 pp.) is Robert Smith to JM, 31 Dec. 1810, forwarding a letter from John Armstrong to Robert Smith, 29 Dec. 1810 (marked D), which...
25 January 1811. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city stating the expenditures under the act of 28 Apr. 1810 for the better accommodation of the Post Office and Patent Office and for other purposes. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive,...
19 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the resolution of 18 Feb. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Robert Smith to JM, 19 Feb. 1811 , and n. 1.
14 January 1811. Transmits reports of the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings on the subject of the House resolution of 28 Dec. 1810. Printed copy ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports of the Superintendent of the City, and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H....
5From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An act for the relief of Richard Turvin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory” I now return the same to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with the following objection: Because the Bill, in reserving a certain parcel of land of the...
6From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill, entitled “An Act incorporating the protestant Episcopal Church in the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,” I now return the Bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections: Because the Bill exceeds the rightful authority, to which Governments are limited by the essential distinction between Civil...
25 February 1811. Transmits reports from the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings in compliance with the resolution of 14 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 19 Jan. 1811 (second letter) , and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 11 Feb. 1811 (second...
31 January 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of war in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Jan. 1811. Printed copy and enclosures ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Return of the Army … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New...
28 December 1810. Communicates a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (21 pp.) is a 28 Dec. report with three sections, marked A, B, and C, on the duties imposed by France on imports carried in American vessels (printed in ASP...
14 January 1811. Transmits copies of the documents requested in the resolution of 4 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1); Tr ( DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E3). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosure, a printed copy of JM’s proclamation of 2 Nov. 1810 and a Treasury Department circular to customs collectors dated 2 Nov. 1810,...