12 December 1809. Transmits a “copy of a paper purporting to be a Circular letter from Mr Jackson to the British Consuls” and a paper “purporting to be a copy of a despatch from Mr Canning to Mr Erskine of the 23d Jany last,” as they appeared in public prints. Both are submitted in response to a House resolution of 11 Dec. RC and printed enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1...
16 December 1809. In response to a 13 Dec. House resolution, transmits extracts from the correspondence of the U.S. minister at London. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed and dated by JM. Enclosures (21 pp.) are a “Brief account of an un-official conversation between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney on the 18th. of January 1809, continued on...
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 3 Jan. 1810. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 11 Jan. report (2 pp.) (misdated in Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington,...
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 6 Dec. 1809. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 12 Jan. report (3 pp.) enclosing papers concerning Danish restrictions on Baltic shipping (35 pp.). Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents,...
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of war in response to House resolution of 22 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received by the House and referred to a select committee chaired by Thomas Newton, Jr., on 1 Feb.; ordered to be printed on 2 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.;...
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in response to House resolution of 18 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received and tabled on 1 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington, 1834-56). , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1367). Printed in ASP American State Papers:...
9 February 1810. Transmits the secretary of state’s report in response to House resolution of 22 Jan. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosure (4 pp.) is a report of 8 Feb. 1810, signed by Robert Smith, concerning American efforts since 1801 to provide free access to Mobile harbor and to protest Spanish duties of 12 percent exacted on U.S. commerce clearing the...
17 February 1810. Transmits reports from the secretaries of state and of the treasury in response to a House resolution of 5 Feb. Printed copy ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ... (38 vols.; Washington, 1832-61). , Foreign Relations , 3:341); enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC not found. Enclosures are...
9From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 27 March 1810 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of your Resolution of the 26th instant, an enquiry has been made into the correspondence of our Minister at the Court of London with the Department of State; from which it appears that no official communication has been received from him, since his receipt of the letter of November 23d last, from the Secretary of State. A letter of Jany. 4th 1810, has been received from that...
10From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 4 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1810. Transmits report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 26 Mar. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 4 Apr. report (2 pp.), transmitting an abstract of returns on impressment of 903 American seamen by the British navy between 1 Oct. 1807 and 31 Mar. 1809 (1 p.) and an extract of G. T. Ladico,...
11From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 27 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 April 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 23 Apr. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 26 Apr. report (2 pp.) on U.S. consular and commercial agents in foreign countries, “together with the Salaries and compensations that have been allowed to...
12From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 May 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 May 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 30 Apr. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures (13 pp.) are Robert Smith’s 1 May report on relations with Great Britain and France and six appendixes containing extracts from diplomatic correspondence. Received, read, and tabled on 1 May. Printed in Annals...
28 December 1810. Communicates a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (21 pp.) is a 28 Dec. report with three sections, marked A, B, and C, on the duties imposed by France on imports carried in American vessels (printed in ASP...
31 December 1810. Communicates a supplemental report from the secretary of state with information received since his message of 28 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (5 pp.) is Robert Smith to JM, 31 Dec. 1810, forwarding a letter from John Armstrong to Robert Smith, 29 Dec. 1810 (marked D), which...
14 January 1811. Transmits reports of the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings on the subject of the House resolution of 28 Dec. 1810. Printed copy ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports of the Superintendent of the City, and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H....
14 January 1811. Transmits copies of the documents requested in the resolution of 4 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1); Tr ( DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E3). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosure, a printed copy of JM’s proclamation of 2 Nov. 1810 and a Treasury Department circular to customs collectors dated 2 Nov. 1810,...
25 January 1811. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city stating the expenditures under the act of 28 Apr. 1810 for the better accommodation of the Post Office and Patent Office and for other purposes. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive,...
31 January 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of war in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Jan. 1811. Printed copy and enclosures ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Return of the Army … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New...
19 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the resolution of 18 Feb. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Robert Smith to JM, 19 Feb. 1811 , and n. 1.
20From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill, entitled “An Act incorporating the protestant Episcopal Church in the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,” I now return the Bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections: Because the Bill exceeds the rightful authority, to which Governments are limited by the essential distinction between Civil...
25 February 1811. Transmits reports from the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings in compliance with the resolution of 14 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 19 Jan. 1811 (second letter) , and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 11 Feb. 1811 (second...
22From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An act for the relief of Richard Turvin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory” I now return the same to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with the following objection: Because the Bill, in reserving a certain parcel of land of the...
15 January 1812. In compliance with their resolution of 29 Nov. 1811, transmits “a report of the Secretary of State … of American seamen impressed into the service of Foreign Powers.” Printed copy ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 12th Cong., 1st sess., 794). Tr of enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, Reports and...
24From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An Act providing for the trial of Causes pending in the respective District Courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the Judges thereof,” which Bill was presented to me on the twenty fifth of March past, I now return the same to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections:...
25From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1812. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city in compliance with the House resolution of 24 Mar. and also “a letter from B. H. Latrobe connected with that subject.” RC ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). 1 p. In the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 30 Mar. 1812 , and n. 1, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 28 Mar. 1812 .
26From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1812. “In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th of June, I transmit the information contained in the documents herein enclosed.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC and enclosures printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61)....
27From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1812. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 30 Jan. 1812. Printed copy and copy of enclosure ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). , Foreign Relations , 3:583–85); Tr of enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, Reports and Communications from the...
28From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 March 1813. “Conformably to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of January last I transmit ‘Rolls of the persons having office or employment of a public nature under the United States.’” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). RC 1 p. In Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM. Printed with the enclosure as Message from the President of the United...
29From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the 24th I transmit two letters from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the Secretary of State with his answer. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . For enclosures, see n. 2. The resolution, introduced in the House of Representatives by Thomas B. Robertson...
30From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th. instant, I transmit to them, the proceedings of the Commissioner appointed under the “Act to authorise the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the Enemy while in the military service of the United States and for other purposes” as reported by the Commissioner to the Department of War. RC and enclosure...
31From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Having considered the bill, this day, presented to me, entitled “An Act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements” and which sets apart and pledges funds “for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote and give Security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less...