doctor james & his brothers may have been relatives of Philip Turpin. TJ had forwarded a letter to Secretary of War William Eustis from the elder Turpin in connection with this request for patronage, and on 12 Mar. 1812 Beverly Turpin was appointed a second lieutenant in the light dragoons, United States Army (TJ to Eustis, 9 Feb. 1812; Heitman, U.S. Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 1:976; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 2:219 [25 Feb. 1812]). On 17 Feb. 1812 Ezekiel Bacon submitted the report of the commee of ways & means to the United States House of Representatives. It consisted of a two-year plan for raising revenue through a new government loan as well as additional taxes. On 14 Mar. 1812 President James Madison signed legislation approving the loan, which was to be raised by public subscription and was not to exceed eleven million dollars at six percent annual interest (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States . . . Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. (all editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. Citations given below are to the edition mounted on the American Memory website of the Library of Congress and give the date of the debate as well as page numbers) description ends , 12th Cong., 1st sess., 1050–6; U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States . . . 1789 to March 3, 1845, 1855–56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:694–5). On 20 Jan. 1812 treasury secretary Albert Gallatin had presented the House with a plan to raise revenue by both direct and indirect taxes (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Finance, 2:523–7). TJ wrote to Pleasants about the title to the beaverdam lands on 26 Jan. 1810. The plaintiffs in Ronald’s Heirs v. Barkley filed an amended bill in the United States Circuit Court for the Virginia District on 6 Apr. 1810, and Pleasants answered on 11 Sept. 1811 (Vi: U.S. Circuit Court, Virginia District, Record Book, 13:608, 609). The complicated case was not decided until 1818 (Marshall, Papers description begins Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, Charles F. Hobson, and others, eds., The Papers of John Marshall, Chapel Hill, 1974–2006, 12 vols. description ends , 8:209–16).