From Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1 March 1805
To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives
Washington Mar. 1. 1805.
Sir
I beg leave to inform the Senate1 that I shall take the oath which the Constitution prescribes to the President of the United States before he enters on the execution of his office, on Monday the 4th. instant, at twelve aclock in the Senate chamber.
Th: Jefferson
RC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); at foot of text: “The President of the Senate.” FC (DLC); in TJ’s hand, likely a PoC of the version sent to the speaker of the House (see note 1 below); at foot of text: “The President of the Senate” and “The Speaker of the H. of Representatives.” Notation in SJL: “notice that shall qualify Mar. 4.”
1. On FC this word is interlined above “House of Representatives of the United States.”