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To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 31 March 1801 (Abstract)

§ From Robert Montgomery

31 March 1801, Alicante. Gives résumé of his 8 Mar. dispatch. Has placed all U.S. vessels in surrounding waters on alert. Transmits letters just received from U.S. minister at Madrid. Spain has ordered a tax upon all “Commercial People,” including resident U.S. citizens (nearly $4,000 for himself). Has protested to minister of state, quoting seventh article of treaty.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Alicante, vol. 1). 3 pp.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Montgomery; docketed by Wagner.

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    To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 31 March 1801 (Abstract)
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    “To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 31 March 1801 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0080. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 1, 4 March–31 July 1801, ed. Robert J. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Dru Dowdy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986, p. 63.]

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