411To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 23 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day written to you an official letter communicating the incapacity of ——— Neufville Commr. of loans for South Carolina. As he is past eighty years of age there can be no hope of his recovery, and the business of his office ought not to remain long suspended. Perhaps some applications have already been made to you. From that State I have but three names on my file as applicants for...
412To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the letters received on the subject of E. Livingston. If Mr Gelston is right in supposing that the list dated 18th June has been paid to the dist. attorney there is a defalcation of at least that amount to witt thirty thousand dollars; besides which he may have received part of the bonds which had been put in suit whilst Mr Harrison was district attorney and has received some of the...
413To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1803, Treasury Department. “I have the honour of enclosing for your information and consideration an extract of a letter received from the Collector of Philadelphia.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 59, ML ). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Gallatin; docketed by Wagner. Enclosures printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Barbary Wars Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the...
414To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The general direction of the prosecutions which it may be thought proper to institute seems to fall within the province of the Attorney general; and I presume that it will be necessary for him to delegate to the district attorney the discretionary power of deciding to what extent they should be instituted. In doing this, it seems important that the district attorney should in the first place...
415To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 2 October 1809] (Madison Papers)
The claim of Govr. Harrison for an annual compensation of one hundred dollars for superintending the Indians during five years is respectfully submitted to the President for his decision RC (owned by Marshall B. Coyne, Washington, D.C., 1992). Calendared as a letter not found in PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (4 vols. to date;...
416To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Miller commissioner of the revenue applied to me to know whether there was any impropriety in his acting as one of the directors of the Branch Bank in this city. To him personally it is of no importance; but the mother Bank seems very desirous that he should accept. They are much at a loss to find proper directors & wish to fill the vacancy caused by the refusal of John T. Mason to serve...
417To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 18 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the letter which had been intended for Mr Short. The bill purchased for that object amounts to 2439 Guilders current money of Holland (not banco ), and will be sent to Messrs. “Wilhem & Jan Willink and N. & J. & R. Van Staphorst” our bankers at Amsterdam. Those gentlemen will be instructed to inform Mr Livingston our minister at Paris of the acceptance of the bill, and to hold the...
418To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 6 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to enclose the copy of a letter written this day to the Marshal of Virginia respecting the application of the Governor of that State whose letter is herewith returned. I have the honour to be with the highest respect Sir Your most obedient Servant RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Treasury Department on 6...
419To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit two copies of the “Laws, treaties & other documents relative to the public lands” as collected and arranged pursuant to the act of Congress passed April 27, 1810. The marginal notes and index were prepared by Judge Thruston who also assisted in selecting the documents inserted in the collection. It is provided by the above mentioned act that the residue of the...
420To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 18 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting detailed statements of the Expenditures in the Quarter Master General’s department, and by the Naval Agents, from the 1st. January, 1797, to the 31st. December, 1801, so far as the same were made upon accounts settled at the Treasury. Those statements have been prepared by the Register of the Treasury, pursuant to the directions you gave on the 5th. of last...