James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Uriah Tracy, 15 November 1804 (Abstract)

§ From Uriah Tracy

15 November 1804, Senate Chamber. “The Senate have appointed a Comttee. to enquire if the Laws of the U. States (400 Copies) have been procured pursuant to a Law passed last Session of Congress.1

“You will recollect that the Secy for the Departmt. of State was authorised & requested to make the purchase. Information on that subject is requested by the Comttee.”

RC (DNA: RG 59, ML). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner.

1. For the 27 Mar. 1804 “Act to provide for a more extensive distribution of the Laws of the United States,” see U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 2:302–3. For JM’s efforts to make the requested purchase, see JM to Tench Coxe, 7 and 28 Apr., Coxe to JM, 21 Apr., and Mathew Carey to JM, 9 and 25 Apr. 1804, PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends , 7:7, 121 and n. 1, 97, 26–27, 110.

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    To James Madison from Uriah Tracy, 15 November 1804 (Abstract)
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    Tracy, Uriah
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    Madison, James
    Date
    15 November 1804

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    “To James Madison from Uriah Tracy, 15 November 1804 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0299. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 292.]

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