2501James Madison to David Hosack, 28 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your "Memoir of De Witt Clinton" which I owe to your politeness, found me under the influence of an oppressive indisposition, from which I apprehend a slow recovery. In this feeble state of my health, at my advanced Age, and with arrears of pressing claims on my attention, it is uncertain at least when I shall be able to give the memoir such a perusal as would be agreeable to me....
2502From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 December 1810. Communicates a supplemental report from the secretary of state with information received since his message of 28 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (5 pp.) is Robert Smith to JM, 31 Dec. 1810, forwarding a letter from John Armstrong to Robert Smith, 29 Dec. 1810 (marked D), which...
2503From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 9 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 February 1810. Transmits the secretary of state’s report in response to House resolution of 22 Jan. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosure (4 pp.) is a report of 8 Feb. 1810, signed by Robert Smith, concerning American efforts since 1801 to provide free access to Mobile harbor and to protest Spanish duties of 12 percent exacted on U.S. commerce clearing the...
2504From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 3 Jan. 1810. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 11 Jan. report (2 pp.) (misdated in Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington,...
2505From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 25 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 January 1811. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city stating the expenditures under the act of 28 Apr. 1810 for the better accommodation of the Post Office and Patent Office and for other purposes. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive,...
2506From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 July 1812. “In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th of June, I transmit the information contained in the documents herein enclosed.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC and enclosures printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61)....
2507From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 19 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 February 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the resolution of 18 Feb. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Robert Smith to JM, 19 Feb. 1811 , and n. 1.
2508From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 15 January 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 January 1812. In compliance with their resolution of 29 Nov. 1811, transmits “a report of the Secretary of State … of American seamen impressed into the service of Foreign Powers.” Printed copy ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 12th Cong., 1st sess., 794). Tr of enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, Reports and...
2509From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 27 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 April 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 23 Apr. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 26 Apr. report (2 pp.) on U.S. consular and commercial agents in foreign countries, “together with the Salaries and compensations that have been allowed to...
2510From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 4 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 April 1810. Transmits report of the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 26 Mar. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 4 Apr. report (2 pp.), transmitting an abstract of returns on impressment of 903 American seamen by the British navy between 1 Oct. 1807 and 31 Mar. 1809 (1 p.) and an extract of G. T. Ladico,...
2511From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of the treasury in response to House resolution of 18 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received and tabled on 1 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.; Washington, 1834-56). , 11th Cong., 2d sess., 1367). Printed in ASP American State Papers:...
2512From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 14 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 January 1811. Transmits reports of the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings on the subject of the House resolution of 28 Dec. 1810. Printed copy ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports of the Superintendent of the City, and of the Surveyor of the Public Buildings … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H....
2513From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Having considered the bill, this day, presented to me, entitled “An Act to set apart and pledge certain funds for internal improvements” and which sets apart and pledges funds “for constructing roads and canals, and improving the navigation of water courses, in order to facilitate, promote and give Security to internal commerce among the several States, and to render more easy and less...
2514From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An act for the relief of Richard Turvin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, Joseph Wilson, and the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, in the Mississippi Territory” I now return the same to the House of Representatives in which it originated, with the following objection: Because the Bill, in reserving a certain parcel of land of the...
2515From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An Act providing for the trial of Causes pending in the respective District Courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the Judges thereof,” which Bill was presented to me on the twenty fifth of March past, I now return the same to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections:...
2516From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th. instant, I transmit to them, the proceedings of the Commissioner appointed under the “Act to authorise the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the Enemy while in the military service of the United States and for other purposes” as reported by the Commissioner to the Department of War. RC and enclosure...
2517From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the 24th I transmit two letters from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the Secretary of State with his answer. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . For enclosures, see n. 2. The resolution, introduced in the House of Representatives by Thomas B. Robertson...
2518From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1812. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city in compliance with the House resolution of 24 Mar. and also “a letter from B. H. Latrobe connected with that subject.” RC ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). 1 p. In the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 30 Mar. 1812 , and n. 1, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 28 Mar. 1812 .
2519From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom, by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th. inst., the memorial of Peter Landais was referred, has examined the same, and thereupon makes the following report. That it appears from the documents hereunto annexed, that the Alliance, a Frigate belonging to the United States, whilst she was cruising in concert with several other armed Vessels...
2520From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in response to the House’s resolution of 6 Dec. 1809. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosures are Robert Smith’s 12 Jan. report (3 pp.) enclosing papers concerning Danish restrictions on Baltic shipping (35 pp.). Printed in ASP American State Papers: Documents,...
2521From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State to whom by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d. March last was referred a Petition of sundry inhabitants of Post St. Vincennes in the Indiana Territory: has examined the same, and thereupon makes the following report viz. The petitioners assert a right to a tract of land which they describe as extending along the Wabash River from Point Coupee to the...
2522From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 27 March 1810 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of your Resolution of the 26th instant, an enquiry has been made into the correspondence of our Minister at the Court of London with the Department of State; from which it appears that no official communication has been received from him, since his receipt of the letter of November 23d last, from the Secretary of State. A letter of Jany. 4th 1810, has been received from that...
2523From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1812. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 30 Jan. 1812. Printed copy and copy of enclosure ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). , Foreign Relations , 3:583–85); Tr of enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, Reports and Communications from the...
2524From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 February 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill, entitled “An Act incorporating the protestant Episcopal Church in the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia,” I now return the Bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections: Because the Bill exceeds the rightful authority, to which Governments are limited by the essential distinction between Civil...
2525From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State to whom by a resolution of the House of Representatives on the 15th. instant was referred the memorial of Stephen Sayre, has the honor to report, as follows: That he has had the said Memorial and accompanying ⟨doc⟩uments under his consideration, but having no new facts illustrative of the same to lay before the House, he begs leave to refer to those which form the result...
2526From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 17 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 February 1810. Transmits reports from the secretaries of state and of the treasury in response to a House resolution of 5 Feb. Printed copy ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ... (38 vols.; Washington, 1832-61). , Foreign Relations , 3:341); enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC not found. Enclosures are...
2527From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 12 December 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 December 1809. Transmits a “copy of a paper purporting to be a Circular letter from Mr Jackson to the British Consuls” and a paper “purporting to be a copy of a despatch from Mr Canning to Mr Erskine of the 23d Jany last,” as they appeared in public prints. Both are submitted in response to a House resolution of 11 Dec. RC and printed enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1...
2528From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 May 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 May 1810. Transmits a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 30 Apr. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Enclosures (13 pp.) are Robert Smith’s 1 May report on relations with Great Britain and France and six appendixes containing extracts from diplomatic correspondence. Received, read, and tabled on 1 May. Printed in Annals...
2529From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1810. Transmits a report of the secretary of war in response to House resolution of 22 Jan. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. Received by the House and referred to a select committee chaired by Thomas Newton, Jr., on 1 Feb.; ordered to be printed on 2 Feb. ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ... (42 vols.;...
2530From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 25 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 February 1811. Transmits reports from the superintendent of the city and the surveyor of the public buildings in compliance with the resolution of 14 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 19 Jan. 1811 (second letter) , and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 11 Feb. 1811 (second...
2531From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 March 1813. “Conformably to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of January last I transmit ‘Rolls of the persons having office or employment of a public nature under the United States.’” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). RC 1 p. In Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM. Printed with the enclosure as Message from the President of the United...
2532From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 31 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 January 1811. Transmits a report of the secretary of war in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Jan. 1811. Printed copy and enclosures ( Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Return of the Army … [Washington, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols. to date; New...
2533From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1810. Communicates a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (21 pp.) is a 28 Dec. report with three sections, marked A, B, and C, on the duties imposed by France on imports carried in American vessels (printed in ASP...
2534From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 16 December 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1809. In response to a 13 Dec. House resolution, transmits extracts from the correspondence of the U.S. minister at London. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed and dated by JM. Enclosures (21 pp.) are a “Brief account of an un-official conversation between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney on the 18th. of January 1809, continued on...
2535From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 14 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 January 1811. Transmits copies of the documents requested in the resolution of 4 Jan. 1811. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1); Tr ( DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, 11A-E3). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For enclosure, a printed copy of JM’s proclamation of 2 Nov. 1810 and a Treasury Department circular to customs collectors dated 2 Nov. 1810,...
2536From James Madison to Samuel House, 29 May 1784 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 18 inst: inclosing one from my amiable friend Mrs. Trist. I feel pathetically for her in case she should have proceeded down the river before the news of Mr. Trist’s death got to Fort Pitt. The situation in which she will find herself at the end of her voyage bereft of the object of her pursuit, and surrounded wholly by strangers whose very language will be...
2537From James Madison to Charles Pitt Howard, 11 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I was presented a few days ago with a sample of Wheat from Buenos Ayres, and of Barley from Old Spain. Being deprived of the opportunity of putting them into the ground myself, I know not that I can dispose of them better than into your hands. I have no particular reason to suppose that either has any peculiar merit; but it may be the case; or they may improve by a change of climate. Such...
2538From James Madison to Joseph Howard, 9 February 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 February 1802, Department of State. Acknowledges Howard’s letter of [27] Jan. concerning the seizure of his property at Trujillo. “As instructions have been given to our Minister at Madrid to endeavour to effect an agreement with the Spanish Government for the establishment of a Board of Commissioners to ascertain the losses which our commercial citizens have sustained during the war, it...
2539From James Madison to John Howe, 2 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the mail of last evening your letter of Feb. 22. and have dropped a few lines to the President, recalling his attention to the subject of my former one. I return the letter from Mr. Marshal. I am very sorry to learn that he has been so little successful in regaining his health; and that a final failure will bequeath to his amiable relict, a situation for herself & infant charge,...
2540From James Madison to David J. Howell, 2 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
I enclose copies of several papers, received from the Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, whence it would appear that the Ship Charles and Harriot John Earl, master, Ship Swift, Capt. Maybury, Brig Israel, John Gardner, master, and the Ship Oneida, Capt. Maybury, all of Newport, Rh. Island have been concerned in carrying on the slave trade between Foreign Countries. You will be pleased to obtain...
2541From James Madison to Joseph Howell, 12 February 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 February 1791. Acknowledged in Howell to JM, 14 Feb. 1791 . Requests information concerning the claim submitted by the heirs of Robert and Henry Tompkins.
2542From James Madison to Hoyt and Tom, 18 November 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th. inst. Whether the case of your Sloop Hiram is embraced by the Convention with France may be considered as doubtful. It would therefore be advisable for you to take the advice of Counsel upon that point, and upon the steps necessary for you to pursue in order to bring it within the purview of the Treaty, if any further proceedings are incumbent upon you;...
2543From James Madison to Hoyt & Tom and Laurence & Whitney, 26 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 January 1802, Department of State, Washington. Acknowledges receipt of their letter of 20 Jan. “and can only say in answer, that the subject of Spanish captures has been committed to the new Minister to Madrid, Mr. Pinckney, who is instructed to press for compensation: but as I have not heard of his arrival there, I can give you no information of his success.” RC ( DNA : RG 76, Spain,...
2544From James Madison to Simeon Hubbard, 25 July 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two letters of the 12th. & 15. inclosing cash & communications for Mrs. Randolph, the daughter of Mr Jefferson, which have been duly forwarded. For the copy of the very feeling effusion prompted by the solemn occasion & the kind sentiments expressed for myself, I tender you my thanks & a return of my respects & friendly wishes. Draft ( DLC ).
2545From James Madison to William E. Hũlings, 7 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Lewis A. Terascon, an enterprising citizen of Pennsylvania, having built and loaded two vessels at Pittsburg and intending to dispatch them for Europe, apprehends that the present or future restraints of our rights in the Mississippi may render your good offices useful to him in their passage out of the river. One of the vessels is a schooner called the Amity of 105 tons, commanded by...
2546From James Madison to William E. Hũlings, 29 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 18th Ult, has duly come to hand, with the extract from the decree of the Intendant prohibiting the deposit of American merchandize at New Orleans without assigning any other on the Banks of the Mississippi. This proceeding can be viewed in no other light than as a direct and palpable infraction of the Treaty of 1795, and a heavy aggression on the immediate interests of the...
2547From James Madison to William Hull and Others, 1 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
We are ready according to the terms of our Commission to enquire into the claims which may be made to any part of the lands containd within the conditional cession of Georgia & for that purpose we invite you to communicate to us with precision the nature & extent of the claims made by yourselves & other persons whose agents you are. Transcripts of the several deeds company Articles & other...
2548From James Madison to William Hull (Abstract), 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
22 March 1805, Department of State . “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your Services as Governor of the Territory of Michigan, I have the pleasure to inclose your Commission.” RC ( MH ); letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Permanent and Temporary Presidential Commissions). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM; docketed by...
2549From James Madison to William Hull, 10 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
Having asked and obtained the opinion of the Attorney General on certain points stated by the Secretary of the Michigan Territory, and as the opinion may be of use to you as well as to him, I enclose a copy of it, and am, Sir, with great respect, Your Very Obt. Servt. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
2550From James Madison to William Hull (Abstract), 11 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 June 1805, Department of State. “As no specific appropriation was made by Congress for the support of the Government of Michegan, it has been arranged, that the Salaries are to be paid out of the Contingent fund of Government; and the Governor Judges and Secretary may receive a quarters advance at the Treasury, reimbursable by the first salary which accrues to them respectively. It will be...