From James Madison to Congress, 18 January 1814 (Abstract)
To Congress, 18 January 1814 (Abstract)
§ To Congress. 18 January 1814. “I lay before Congress a report of the acting Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the ‘act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio.[’]”
RC and enclosures, two copies (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A-E1; and DNA: RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A-E4). Each RC 1 p.; in Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM. The enclosures were William Jones to JM, 14 Jan. 1814 (1 p.), covering a copy of a 31 Dec. 1813 letter to Jones (2 pp.) from David Shriver Jr., the superintendent of the Cumberland Road, describing progress made toward its completion during the past year (printed in
2:226).