151From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 31 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you the papers respecting the Louisiana board of Commissioners, with only the alteration of omitting the words in the Xth. intruction about which you had doubted yourself. at the same time it is without confidence I give any opinion on this subject, having always considered your knolege on it so exact as to supersede the necessity of my studying it minutely. if any opinion, in aid...
152Enclosure: Memorandum on the Edward Stevens Claim, 19 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctr. Stevens having been sent by the preceding administration in 1798. to St. Domingo, with the Commission of Consul general, and also with authorities as an agent additional to his Consular powers, under a stipulation that his expences should be born; an account of these is now exhibited to the Secretary of state and the questions arise Whether the paiment can be authorised by the...
153From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The cargo, ostensible destination, ownership & other circumstances respecting the ship Lorenzo of New York, leave not a doubt but that fraud is intended. let her therefore be detained. As the law for laying permanent protecting duties will pass through your hands, I take the liberty of depositing with you the inclosed letter from mr Strong of Philadelphia, giving an account, & a specimen of...
154From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 15th. & 17th. are recieved. you will find an approbation signed at the foot of mr Millar’s letter. all the papers inclosed to me, are re-inclosed except the list of warrants.—I do not with very great certainty recollect the particulars as to Genl. Herd . but I think we at first intended him the place afterwards given to Lynn: that it was after that suggested he would accept...
155From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 22 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the papers which inform us of the construction of the law respecting land claims by the Commissioners of Louisiana, with the Attorney General’s opinion on that construction. this opinion is approved by every member of the administration, as it is by myself. satisfied that no improper motive has produced this mistake of the object of the law in the minds of the Commissioners, I...
156From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 25 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to be obliged to hasten your return to this place, & pray that it may be without a moment’s avoidable delay. the capture of the Chesapeak by a British ship of war renders it necessary to have all our council together. the mail is closing. Affectionate salutations. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
157From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 4 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Cutters being intended to fulfill a legal object, if that of Charleston is not competent, we should certainly provide one which is so. I think she should be of such velocity & force as not to be outsailed or resisted by the African ships, against which nothing should be spared. I concur with you in opinion that MacNeel being here & a good judge, it would be better to let him buy one at...
158From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 6 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The draught of the letter is approved, & I should be much disposed to remove Backus, on a more detailed knolege of facts. Feb. 6. 07. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
159Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, [before 6 June 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
The importance that the inclosed letters should safely reach their destination impels me to avail my self of the protection of your cover. this is an inconvenience to which your situation exposes you, while it adds to the opportunities of exercising yourself in works of charity. According to the opinion I hazarded to you , a little before your departure, we have had almost an entire change in...
160From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose for your perusal my answer to mr Clarke. will you be so good as to give the instructions therein spoken of to the Commissioners & Governor, & to Seal & send the letter to Mr. Clark? I send herewith the papers he left with me, to be filed in your office unless he wishes their return. affectionate salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
161From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Collector of Detroit. I think the liberal construction of the letter of May 2. as explained in the Collector’s letter, had better be permitted to go on, sub silentio, as the contrary would be vexatious & unprofitable, and might excite a spirit of counter-vexation in the English. McKim’s application is inadmissible, and Genl. Smith would be far from himself approving such a departure from rule,...
162From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 2 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the cases of Thorndike of Mass. & Barney of R.I. recieved by yesterday’s post, which appearing to have nothing taking them out of the common rule, you will be pleased to dispose of them according to that. Thorndike’s ground is that he was out of the state of Mass. during the whole time permits were allowed. if he had been out of the US. the case would have merited consideration:...
163From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 10 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I find Bastrop’s case less difficult than I had expected. my view of it is this. the Governor of Louisiana being desirous of introducing the culture of wheat into that province engages Bastrop as an Agent for carrying that object into effect. he agrees to lay off 12. leagues square on the Washita & Bayou Liard, as a settlement for the culture of wheat, to which Bastrop is to bring 500....
164From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 29 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Schooner Concord in which John Bell has an agency. the detention is confirmed for that cause 2. Sloop Rising Sun; unless she has a Governor’s certificate, or can bring herself within the rule of ⅛ th. she should be detained. 3. Brig Ann-Maria and passengers, who pray to change their destination from the islands now blockaded to St. Lucia or Dominica in possession of the English. this being...
165From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 31 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Elliot (whose speech I saw not till last night) has so pointedly denied our account of the battle of the Lyman sea or lake, that it would seem necessary to have published in the Nat. Intelligr. an Extract from the work from which it was taken. you were kind enough to suggest the transaction to me (for I had forgotten it) and I think you took it from the Annual Register. can you furnish me...
166Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 22 . was most acceptable to me, by the distinctness of the view it presented of the state of France . I rejoice in the prospect that that country will so soon recover from the effects of the depression under which it has been laboring; and especially I rejoice in the hope of it’s enjoying a government as free as perhaps the state of things will yet bear. it appears to me...
167From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Several French vessels of war, disabled from keeping the sea by the storms which, some time since, took place on our coast, put into the harbors of the US. to avoid the danger of ship-wreck. the minister of their nation states that their crews are without resources for subsistence & other necessaries, until they can be supplied from his government; for obtaining which he, without delay, took...
168From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 4 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Resolved that no armed men, not being citizens of the US. ought to be permitted to enter or remain, nor any authority to be exercised, but under the laws of the US. within the ‘former colony or province of Louisiana, in the extent in which it was in the hands of Spain’ 2. Resolved that as to the residue of the sd ‘former colony or province of Louisiana, in the extent it had when France...
169From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 10 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It appears that on the 31st. Mar. 1800. a paiment of cents & half cents was made into the treasury, which raised the whole amount paid in to more than 50,000. D. and that the Treasurer ought then forthwith to have announced it in the gazettes. consequently it ought, now that the omission is first percieved, to be forthwith announced. nevertheless, as the continuance of the mint is uncertain,...
170From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Are the inclosed designations of office right? is Nelson to be Inspector as well as Collector, & is it the district of York ? you will observe I have left out the Surveyor of Louisville. will you be so good as in your passage through Philadelphia to enquire of Capt Lewis whether he knows Richard Ferguson, or any person there fitter than him, & to drop me a line from there & I will have the...
171From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 11 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The bank statements are new to me and present curious information. to obtain a general idea I have brought them together as above , very inaccurately, omitting some items I did not understand, lumping others perhaps ill understood. but such an abstract accurately made would be interesting. for this purpose it would require in the first place a judicious form to be devised, and that sent to all...
172From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 22 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers you last sent me place Banning’s conduct in a more unfavorable point of view than those before communicated. about Davies we will converse the first time we meet. As to Doctr. Stevens’s case I am sure we shall ultimately come to a result in which we can all harmonise. whether in every case there be, or be not, an appeal from the Comptroller to the Secretary of the Treasury, & from...
173From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 8th. & 10th. came to hand yesterday. with respect to Hopkins’s case, which is the subject of the former, my opinion is generally that when a case is exactly that which the law meant to punish, it is one for which the power of pardon was not intended. but when a case is not that which the law meant to make criminal, & yet happens to be within it’s letter, there is proper...
174From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to read my letter to mr Smith, and then seal & send it with your own to the Post office? also to read the within rough draught to Genl. Sullivan & suggest any alterations you think proper. when mr Rodney’s opinion shall be printed I shall be glad a few copies, say half a dozen or a dozen. Affectionate salutations. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
175From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 6th. & 9th. are just now recieved, as well as a letter from Govr. Tompkins on the subject of aiding the revenue officers on the Canada line with militia. I refer you on this subject to my answer to him, & pray you to encourage strongly his going to the spot himself & acting according to the urgencies which will present themselves there. should you have satisfactory evidence of...
176Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a request from M. de la Fayette to send him two copies of the Review of Montesquieu , published in Philadelphia about 4. or 5. years ago, and have written to Dufief to forward them under cover to you, wherever you may be, which he will know better than I can. I pray you to be the bearer of them, with the letter for him now inclosed; and, if you have never read the work,...
177From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 10 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It would certainly be very desirable that our citizens should be able to draw home their property from beyond sea, and it is possible that mr Parish’s proposition might be instrumental to that. but it would be too bold an extension of the views of the legislature in the portion of discretion they have given us. they could not mean to give us so extensive a power of dispensation as would result...
178From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the petitions of the inhabitants of Sag-harbor and of the Keeper of the Light house there. the claims of the parties depend on the Indian right of soil, on the legal effect of the Indian conveyances & contracts, & the degree of patronage or guardianship exercised over them by the government of N. York. the rule of decision being the lex loci, the science & authority of the State...
179From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid this matter of Beaumarchais, will become a serious one if not done with, which is easy as yet, but will become more & more difficult. can you take any measures to get it acted upon, & satisfactorily? the letter is to be returned to mr Madison. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
180From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 11 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. with his salutations to mr Gallatin informs him that the act for the Navy appropriation was brought to him last night, is signed & deposited in the office of state. Dec. 11. 05. NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.