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To James Madison from George Washington, [ca. March 1791]

From George Washington

[ca. March 1791]

My dear Sir,

If under the existing circumstances of the newly established Bank you can add other & fitter characters than some who are proposed in the enclosed letter,1 you would oblige me by naming them, & returning the enclosed in an hour or two. Yrs sincerely

Go: Washington

Tr (MH: Jared Sparks Collection of American Manuscripts, vol. 24). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on evidence in n. 1.

1. The only appointments the President was authorized to make by virtue of “An Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,” 25 Feb. 1791, were those of three or more persons to oversee subscriptions. By 23 Mar. 1791, five men had been commissioned to carry out the task: Thomas Willing, David Rittenhouse, Samuel Howell, John Beale Bordley, and Lambert Cadwalader (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 1:191–92; Tobias Lear to Washington, 23 Mar. 1791, Abbot et al., Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, 8:3).

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    To James Madison from George Washington, [ca. March 1791]
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    Madison, James
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    1–31 March 1791

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    “To James Madison from George Washington, [ca. March 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0532. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 616.]

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