James Madison Papers

Presidential Proclamation, 8 March 1810 (Abstract)

§ Presidential Proclamation

8 March 1810, Washington. On 5 Mar. the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, ratified and confirmed the treaty concluded at Vincennes on 9 Dec. 1809 between the U.S. and the Kickapoo Indians. Requires all officeholders and citizens “faithfully to observe and fulfil” the treaty.

Printed copy (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages). Enclosed in JM’s 15 Mar. message to Congress. Published in National Intelligencer, 14 Mar. 1810. The treaty is printed in ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ... (38 vols.; Washington, 1832-61). description ends , Indian Affairs, 1:762–63.

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    Presidential Proclamation, 8 March 1810 (Abstract)
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    Madison, James
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    8 March 1810

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    “Presidential Proclamation, 8 March 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0330. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 266.]