To James Madison from the House of Representatives, 19 December 1811 (Abstract)

§ From the House of Representatives

19 December 1811. Resolve “That the President … be requested to cause to be laid before this House, by the proper officers, a statement of the capital employed in the Indian trade; the amount of annual purchases, sales, and articles, received in payment; together with the number, names, and salaries, of agents employed, the places where stationed, and specifying, as far as practicable, the state of the trade at each place for the last four years.”1

Printed copy (Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 12th Cong., 1st sess., 560).

1. William Eustis wrote to the House on 15 Jan. 1812 “to transmit the enclosed documents and letter from the Superintendent of Indian Trade, which contain the information requested” (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Indian Affairs, 1:782–94).

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Title: To James Madison from the House of Representatives, 19 December 1811 (Abstract)
Author: House of Representatives
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 19 December 1811

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Cite as: “To James Madison from the House of Representatives, 19 December 1811 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-04-02-0090. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 5 November 1811–9 July 1812 and Supplement 5 March 1809 – 19 October 1811, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Jewel L. Spangler, Ellen J. Barber, Martha J. King, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 78–79.]

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