James Madison Papers

From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816

To the Senate

January the 26th. 1816.

Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the Offices respectively annexed to their names. …

James Madison

RC (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, followed by a list, in a clerk’s hand, of nineteen nominees to be principal assessors of the revenue throughout the nation, signed by JM. The Senate approved six of the nominations on 5 Feb. 1816 and the remainder on 9 Feb. 1816 (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 3:28–29, 31).

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