Presidential Proclamation, 2 January 1815 (Abstract)

§ Presidential Proclamation. 2 January 1815. Revises building terms and conditions for the city of Washington. Suspends the first and third articles of the 17 Oct. 1791 building regulations until 1 Jan. 1816.1 Adds an exception that “no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve [sic] shall be erected, nor shall any such house be placed within twenty-four feet of a brick or stone house.”

Ms (DLC: Commissioners of the District of Columbia Collection, 1791–1869). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Printed in the Daily National Intelligencer on 5, 7, and 9 Jan. 1815.

1. See JM’s Presidential Proclamations of 1 Jan. 1810 and 1 Jan. 1813, PJM-PS, description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (8 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends 2:157 and n. 1, 5:545.

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Title: Presidential Proclamation, 2 January 1815 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Date: 2 January 1815

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Cite as: “Presidential Proclamation, 2 January 1815 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0419. [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. 484.]