251To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 28 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The only information received by this Department in relation to any “attempts made to give circulation and credit to the Detroit Bank Notes, since the law of the Territory for establishing the said Bank was rejected,” was communicated by Stanley Griswold late Collector of Detroit and Secretary of the Michigan Territory. A copy of his letter of 12th. February last on that subject is...
252To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
You were pleased to approve a proposition respecting the Marine Hospital at Charleston contained in the letter of the Collector of that port, dated 9th. June 1802, of which a copy is enclosed. A letter authorizing him to accept the offer of the Corporation was accordingly written to him on the 29th. of the same month. But that body altered their opinion, and the Hospital was continued on the...
253To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 31 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
It being provided by the 7th Section of the Act entitled “an Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio” (8th Vol. page 34) that the President should lay before Congress an annual statement of the proceedings under the act, I have addressed to you the enclosed letter which together with the documents accompanying it may, I...
254Albert Gallatin to James Madison, 9 April 1831 (Madison Papers)
I laid your’s and Mr Richardson’s letter before the Council of our incipient University at their monthly meeting, and now return that of Mr R. We have not yet obtained a Charter and cannot expect any pecuniary assistance either from the State or City. We have in that respect great difficulties to encounter and probably still greater from the Sectarian influence, whether that which supports or...
255To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 6 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from John Young, a mariner, who being sick within the limits of one of those sea-Ports (Middletown Connecticut) in which no hospital has been erected, nor the expence of any monies arising from the hospital Fund, been authorized. Under those circumstances, relief may be granted in special cases, by order of the President . On that account Young’s...
256To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to enclose the copy of a letter from the Collector of New York, and respectfully to submit the propriety of appointing Francis Gilpin second Mate of the Revenue Cutter. I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, Your most obed. Sert. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from...
257To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Is it proper to submit this letter to the Attorney general in order to examine whether prosecutions may be instituted under the Statute for actual opposition to the Marshal in the exercise of his legal functions? Or is it better not to notice the acts & to let the prosecutions for the riot take their course in the State courts? Respectfully submitted RC ( DLC : TJ Papers, 146:25373); undated,...
258To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I could not obtain a copy of the revenue law for New Orleans and am informed that it was sent to you. I was obliged to close the instructions without it & may have omitted some important particulars. I will thank you to send it when you return the sketch of instructions. If both could be sent to my house some time to morrow, it would accelerate the business. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt RC (...
259To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a letter from Mr Trist which does not give a very flattering account of our official prospects in New Orleans. I think we must take our officers from the many candidates who migrate there. Mr Nicholas may be one of them. The Rhode Island delegation very strenuously recommended a person , not Russel, whose name I have forgotten, but whom you may find in your file. Affectionately &...
260To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 26 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Is not the within important? And Might not the Navy dept. give immediate authority to Capt. Chauncey? RC and enclosure ( NHi : Gallatin Papers). RC undated; date assigned here on the basis of JM’s reply of the same day. For enclosure, see n. 1. The enclosure was a 24 Aug. 1812 letter written from New York by John Armstrong to Gallatin (2 pp.). Armstrong relayed the substance of a conversation...