Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1803 (Abstract)

§ Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress

5 February 1803, Washington. Measures authorized by the board subsequent to the report of 16 Dec. 1801,1 “as far as the same have been completed,” are detailed in Gallatin’s enclosed 3 Feb. report to the board and in the proceedings of the treasury officers referred to therein.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 46, Reports from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 7A-F7). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM and the other commissioners, Aaron Burr, Albert Gallatin, and Levi Lincoln. Enclosure (12 pp.) is a report of the income and payments of the sinking fund. The letter, report, and appendixes are 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 , Finance, 2:23–29.

1. See PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 2:320 and n.

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Title: Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1803 (Abstract)
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Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
Date: 5 February 1803

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Cite as: “Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to Congress, 5 February 1803 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0360. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 302.]