James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Simon Snyder, 12 April 1811 (Abstract)

§ From Simon Snyder

12 April 1811, Lancaster. Transmits “an exemplified copy of an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled, ‘An Act to cede the occupancy and use of certain lands near Presque Isle, to the United States, for the purpose therein mentioned.’”1

RC (DNA: RG 26, Early Light House Correspondence, Misc. Letters Received). 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Snyder.

1. The purpose of the legislation was to permit the construction of a lighthouse (see Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New York, 1958—). description ends 23652], pp. 221–22).

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    To James Madison from Simon Snyder, 12 April 1811 (Abstract)
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    Snyder, Simon
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    Madison, James
    Date
    12 April 1811

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    “To James Madison from Simon Snyder, 12 April 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0320. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 3 November 1810–4 November 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, p. 266.]

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